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Alaska is purchased from Russia
The looming U.S. Civil War delayed the sale but after the war. The Secretary of State William Seward, he took up a renewed Russian offer and on March 30, 1867 and agreed to the proposal from a Russian Minister in Washington, and his name is Edouard de Stoeck to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
Its a golden spike that was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. The transcontinental railroad had long been a dream for people living in the American West. -
John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
An American industrialist John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York. He built his first oil refinery near Cleveland also in 1870 incorporated the Standard Oil Company. By 1882 he had a near monopoly of the oil business in the U.S., but his business practices led to the passing of antitrust laws. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
He well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired mother in Canada. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. No Chinese Laborers were allowed. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts of many others. -
Ellis Island opens
Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892. Seventeen-year-old Annie Moore, from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot. No asians entered here they mainly entered on Angel Island. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
The peak years of Ellis Island's operation some 5,000 to 10,000 people passed through the immigration station every day. Approximately 80% successfully passed through in a matter of hours, but other people could be detained for days or weeks. -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
The Homestead strike also known as the Homestead steel strike or Homestead massacre was an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892 culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. Many people were killed/injured this day for fighting back. -
Plessy v Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
The U.S. declares war on Spain
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Hawaii is annexed
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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
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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 (car)
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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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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.
