Timeline Project - American History

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  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Western Union offered Bell $100,000 to sell his patent in 1876, but Bell declined. Four years later, Bell also invented the wireless telephone. This invention is important because it forever changed how and the speed of how we communicate,
  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Nikola Tesla was actually the first to invent the light bulb, but Thomas Edison perfected it. Edison's light bulb was built in his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. The light bulb was just one of the 1,093 of the inventions Edison patented in his lifetime.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

  • Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem

  • Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed

    Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed

    This Act was the first series of significant consumer protection laws enstated by Congress. The law also applies to all transported food. The problem was first given attention in 1898 when rotten cans of beef were shipped the the U.S. military.

  • Peak Year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T

    Henry Ford produces his first Model T

    The automobile was produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 to 1927. The car became popular for its low price, durability and how easy it was to maintain. This car quickly became the guideline for future transportation.
  • Creation of the NAACP

    Creation of the NAACP

    The NAACP is a civil rights organization. The creation of the NAACP is vital to our history because it helped bring justice to African Americans and helped us become closer to true democracy. The group included key figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.
  • The Triangle Shirt-waste Fire

    The Triangle Shirt-waste Fire

    The Triangle Shirt Waste Fire was a tragedy that killed 146 workers in the Asch Building in Manhattan. This event made people fight for workers' rights.
  • The assassination on Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    The assassination on Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    Austria's Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated by a nineteen year old named Gavrilo Princip. Ferdinand's wife, Sophie, was also killed in the incident. This event is important in history because of how lethal it was and how it was the downfall of Germany.

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.

    Although women finally won the fight for votes, there were strict rules in order for them to be able to participate. Women had to be thirty and owned property, or at least be married to someone who owned property. Newspapers often ridiculed the women who fought for their right to vote by calling them "Suffragists" and "Suffragettes".
  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.

    Women finally getting the right to vote was important to our history as it was one step closer to the United States becoming a true democracy. Oddly enough, for ten years, starting in 1797, New Jersey temporarily granted unmarried women the right to vote. Important women who led the fight for the right to vote were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.