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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
the transcontinental railroad was transporting $50 million worth of freight each year. In addition to transporting western food crops and raw materials to East Coast markets and manufactured goods from East Coast cities to the West Coast. The railroad also facilitated international trade. -
John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell was a inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885. Because of him technology has advanced alot. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
The electric light bulb has been called the most important invention since man-made fire. The light bulb helped to establish social order after sundown. Extended the workday well into the night, and allowed us to navigate and travel safely in the dark. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese immigrants in the 19th century worked as laborers, particularly on transcontinental railroads such as the Central Pacific Railroad. They also worked as laborers in mining, and suffered racial discrimination at every level of society. And because of this this act was created. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Act outlaws "every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade," and any "monopolization, attempted monopolization. Or conspiracy or combination to monopolize." Long ago, the Supreme Court decided that the Sherman Act does not prohibit every restraint of trade. -
Ellis Island opens
When Ellis Island opened a great change was taking place in U.S. immigration. Fewer arrivals were coming from northern and western Europe, Germany, Ireland, Britain and the Scandinavian countries. As more and more immigrants poured in from southern and eastern Europe. -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
Because of the the strike a lot of things happened. The strike raised the wages and lowered the hours. And it helped with work safety laws. -
Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. As a result Spain lost its control over the remains of its overseas empire. The country they lost control of are Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines Islands, Guam, and other islands. -
Hawaii is annexed
The Spanish-American War broke out and the strategic use of the naval base at Pearl Harbor during the war convinced Congress to approve formal annexation. Two years later Hawaii was organized into a formal U.S. territory.And in 1959 entered the United States as the 50th state. -
Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
Officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. Their original aim was the destruction of the dynasty. And also of the Westerners who had a privileged position in China. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Tenement Act
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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Women got the right to vote.
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The United States enters WWI
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
