Timeline Project Turn of the Century

By Creighton033

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    The United States purchased Alaska from the Russia. The United States paid $7.2 million ($128 million today).
  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

    When the United States, completed the Transcontinental Railroad, it linked the East Coast and the West Coast. Made business go faster.

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

    John D. Rockefeller started and grew up to 90% of the Oil industry. He was the King of Oil.

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell didn't really do it. Antonio Muecci actually invented it but Bell is credited for inventing it.
  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Thomas Edison invents the light bulb and people can work after sun-down. Factories can produce much more even after they have no light outside.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    A United States Federal law signed by president Chester Arthur. This law prohibited all Chinese immigrants

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

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    This act outlawed businesses to be doing monopolies. Monopolies take control of a particular business.
  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island was to keep diseased immigrants or bad immigrants out of our country. Ellis island filtered the immigrant out.

  • Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike

    The workers of Carnegie Steel's refused to work so they rebelled and Carnegie had them exterminated.
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Plessy vs. Ferguson

    This was a case of racial disputes and racial rights. In the end of this case, blacks were known as "separate but equal".

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

    A group of Americans that lived in Hawaii overtook Hawaii's king and then the President took over from there.

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

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act

    This act fixed the tenements where the immigrants lived. The tenements were poorly ventilated, did not have windows leading outside, and had a closed courtyard.

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

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

    Philippines were taken over by the US. If the US did not take the Philippines over then Germany would.

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

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

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

    When these acts were passed, the meat packing industries were cleaned up and made food safer for people to eat.

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

    In the year 1907, Ellis island had the most immigrants come through it. They had 12 million immigrants come through.
  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T

    Henry Ford produces his first Model T

    The Model T was the first car. Henry ford produced it in only black.

  • Creation of NAACP

    Started by W.E.B Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, and Moorfield Storey, it was to create justice for African Americans.
  • The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaste fire gave us the Tenement Act of 1901. Because of the Act, we now have better buildings and inspections.

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

    A Serbia terrorist group shot and killed the Archduke of Austria. The terrorist group also killed the archduke's wife.
  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    The Panama Canal connected the East Coast and West Coast by sea. It reduced travel time by a lot.

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote

  • The United States enters WWI

    The United States enters WWI

    After practically supporting GB with supplies, Germany is not very happy. So we declare war on the Axis Powers.