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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
The standard oil was controlled by 90 percent of the US that went through the pipe lines. American company and corporate the industrial empire. He controlled the marking of the business too. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell's success came through his experiments and his family. He also assisted the deaf communication. He was also a immigrant that came to the U.S. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese exclusion act lasted for 10 years and was renewed in 1892 with the Geary Act and was permanent in 1902. The laws tried to stop all Chinese immigration into the United States for about ten years. The violance soon their was broke out in the miners. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Ellis Island opens
The Ellis island was a immigration station that served for 60 years to transport immigrants. Over millions took boats that went through Ellis island. It changed life changing journeys of many symbols. -
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike
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Hawaii is annexed
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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
The U.S. had ongoing struggles with the Cubans and Filipinos. There was a mysterious explosion there that cause them to start the war. The sinking battle ship was in the Maine in Havana harbor. -
The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Tenement Act
The tenements was a place where minimum families stay in one tenement. All the lighting and bathroom were in better condition than the others. But it was still in pretty bad shape like a dumbbell shape. -
Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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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
Roosevelt signed a law where on the same day he signs the meat inspection act. He mislead the labeling on the foods and drugs that was prohibited. He was sent to the FDA after he mislead the labels. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford produced his first Motel T (car)
Ford had built over 15 million model t cars in the 1900s.iT was the longest production that ran automobile in history.the first model t company was in detroit. -
Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
There was about forty-nine workers that were burned to death or suffocated bu the smoke in the building. Over 145 people were killed by the fire. They all got trapped because the elevator got stuff for all the others. -
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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The United States enters WWI
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
The women fought for what was right and have their rights too. They had to be imprison for them to get notice by the president so they can have their right. The stood at the white house everyday until the president did something about it.
