Timeline Project

By kylahornback

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska was bought by the U.S from Russia for $7.2 Million.

  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

  • John D Rockefeller started Standard Oil.

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

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

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Law signed by President Chester A. Arthur, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

  • Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation Labor (AFL)

    Organized skilled workers into a union.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed monopolies

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island.

  • Carnegie Steel Homestead Strike

    Carnegie Steel Homestead Strike

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    The U.S Supreme Court that created laws for racial segregation in public places.

  • Hawaii is annexed

    Hawaii was eventually made a territory in 1900, 2 years after it was annexed.

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

    The start of the Boxer Rebellion

    Violent uprising that happened because of a group of Chinese people who would attack foreigners.

  • Tenement Act

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

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

    The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

    Book written to expose meat packing industries.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act are passed

    Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act are passed

  • Henry Ford produced his first model t car

    Henry Ford produced his first model t car

  • Creation of NAACP

    NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    One of the deadliest industrial fires in U.S. history. There would have been less fatalities if there were fire escapes.

  • The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.