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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
This event was important because I feel that without the completion of the Transcontinental RR it would have taken longer for the US to get where it is today. The RR brought the country together. Many men changed the US because of the RR's completion. -
John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
Oil is one of the most important resources we use today. Without the creation of standard oil, it would have taken longer for the US to be able to produce better oil. The world would be much different then it is today without it. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Light is the most important thing on the planet. Edison's creation helped so that the day didn't have to end when the sun went down. This also helped the production in factories because of how people could work more instead of having to work until sundown. This invention helped transform the world. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Ellis Island opens
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Carnegie Steel Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
This event was important because the U.S gained territories when the war ended. The territories that were gained were: the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam. The U.S wanted territory and decided that Europe shouldn't own any countries in the western hemisphere. -
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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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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Tenement Act
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
The Panama Canal was a shortcut for ships. It lessened the time it would take to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. The building of the Panama Canal was beneficial to traders that needed to get to the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean or vice versa quickly. -
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Western Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
This event led to new federal safety laws. Upton Sinclair exposed the meat-packing industry for the ways they handled the meat. The food was often contaminated, diseased, and rotten. -
Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
The first model T changed the world. It changed the way we used transportation and though it wasn't the best car it led to today's cars. Without the first model T car we wouldn't have cars today. -
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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The Assassination of Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand
This event led to the first world war. The assassination of the Archduke of Austria was the final push needed for world war one to begin. Because of the assassination, Austria-Hungary sent Serbia a series of demands and all of them were accepted except for the one that was to let Austria-Hungary investigate the assassination and that led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia. -
The United States enters WWI
The U.S played a crucial role in World war 1 or The Great War. Without the U.S the Germans would have taken Paris and France would have fallen. The U.S stepped in and stopped the German advance on Paris. The U.S was a big reason behind the victory of the allies. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
Women deserve the right to vote because men can and if men can do something so should women. We are all created equal and all deserve the same rights. The fact that women had to wait such a long time to receive these basic right that men have is worse than wrong.
