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Russia sold the state of Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million. However, the Civil War delayed the sale but was eventually settled between the Secretary of State William Seward and a Russian Minister named Edouard de Stoeckl. Many Americans calle dAlaska "Seward's Ice Box" due to the extremely cold weather.
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Although there is no specific day or month Standard Oil became a company, this business would change the United States forever. This company became a very infamous monopoly in the late 1800s, and it ruled by purchasing other companies to distribute its products. John D. Rockefeller was a very rich man because of this, and his fortune was estimated to be $318.3 billion.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was an immigration rule that made Chinese laborers not be able to immigrate to the United States. This was the first law that restricted immigration into the United States. President Chester A. Arthur was the one to pass this law.
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Ellis Island was a port where many immigrants from western Europe came to start a new life. Annie Moore was a seventeen-year-old from County Cork, Ireland, and she was the first immigrant to go under a process to become a U.S citizen. Over 12 million immigrants came to the United States through the port of Ellis Island.
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The sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor was a catalyst for this war between the United States and Spain. Another reason the war was declared was due to the ongoing struggle between the Filipinos and the Cubans against Spanish rule. This war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
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The Philippines wanted independence from the United States. Generalissimo Don Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was the leader of this independence movement in the late 1800s. The insurrection birthed Reconcentrado camps, which kept Natives in camps and treated them poorly.
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Many immigrants could only afford to live in large apartment-like buildings called tenements. These buildings were dark and damp, and extremely overcrowded, This act provided one bathroom per twenty people, and it prohibited the construction of dark buildings without windows or proper ventilation.
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President McKinley was shaking hands at a social gathering when he was shot twice by a member of an anarchist movement, Leon Czolgosz. The initial bullet wounds did not kill him, but the gangrene affecting his tissues did. Leon Czolgosz was killed by capital punishment.
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Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the meat-packing industry and the working conditions the workers were put through. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat led to new federal food safety laws and the labeling of both food and medicine. This led to reform and gave American citizens a new look at how their food could be handled.
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President Theodore Roosevelt signed this law due to the extremely unsanitary conditions in which meat was handled at meat factories. He even considered going vegetarian after knowing how the food was being treated and how the workers were placed in such unclean places. This act put detailed labels on food and medicine to show exactly what was in it.
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