Timeline Project

By madelynn
  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska got purchased for 7.2 million

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • John D Rockefeller starts standard oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    He created the first telephone

  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    No more Chinese people allowed

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

  • sherman anti-trust act

    sherman anti-trust act

    People weren't allowed to have monopolies anymore
  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens

    over 12 million immigrants entered through here

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy V Ferguson

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • the US declares war on spain

  • Rudyard Kippling published "The White Man's Burden" in The New York Sun

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • tenement act

    tenement act

    first law that banned the construction of poorly ventilated, dark, dirty buildings in New York

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

  • Philippine insurrection comes to an end

  • roosevelt corollary to the monroe doctrine declares the US right to intervene in the western hem

  • Upton Sinclair releases the jungle

  • Pure food and drug act and the meat inspection act are passed

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T

    Henry Ford produces his first Model T

    had another name called "Tin Lizzie"

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • the triangle shirtwiste fire

    the triangle shirtwiste fire

    deadliest disasters in New York City at the time. a fire in a building happened and killed a lot of people

  • the assassination on Austria's archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

  • panama canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The US enters WWI

  • ratification of the 18th amendment- prohibition

    ratification of the 18th amendment- prohibition

    No more selling, transporting, or making liquor got shut down
  • women got the right to vote

    women got the right to vote

    19th amendment. women are allowed to vote now!