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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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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
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
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Ellis Island opens
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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Hawaii is annexed
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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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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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”
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
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Creation of the NAACP
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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The Triangle Shirtwaste 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
The panama canal created an easier way to tranport good instead of going all the way around south america -
The United States enters WWI
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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.
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Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)
