Timeline

Timeline Project Turn of the Century

By ramsewil

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska was a very large that the addition of land would increase the U.S by nearly 20 percent. Ultimately, buying alaska proved to be a very good move. Major dicovories of gold were made
  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

    It connected the whole country together and we could get goods ship everywhere. It also was a reliable source of transport. When it was completed California was semi-isolated.

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

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

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

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    Lead to less imigrands coming to the U.S. The

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson

    Changed the segregations laws and stated "sepret but equal".

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

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

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act

    It made places safer to live in. It fixed poorly lit and venilated places. Made new building get built.

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

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

    Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

    This leads to the more people looking at how the food they eat is prossed and lead to the food and drug act.
  • Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed

    Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed

    It protected consumers from harmful substances in food and medicines.

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Creation of the NAACP

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

  • The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    The triangle shirtwaste fire

  • 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 panama canal created an easier way to tranport good instead of going all the way around south america

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

    Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

    It made the transportation and use of alcohol illegan and there were gang created and they transpoted alc becuasw it was illegal and it caused a lot of crime

  • Women got the right to vote.

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)