Timeline Project US history

By Cerdajes
  • Alaska purchased from Russia

    Alaska purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • John D Rockefeller started standard oil

    John D Rockefeller started standard oil

  • Alexander Graham bell invents telephone

    Alexander Graham bell invents telephone

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

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Thomas Edison creates maybe the biggest resource invention in the light bulb that would revolutionize the world
  • Chinese exclusion act

    Chinese exclusion act

  • Samuel Gompers founded the AFL

    Samuel Gompers founded the AFL

  • Sherman Antitrust act

    Sherman Antitrust act

  • Carnegie steel homestead strike

    Carnegie steel homestead strike

    The Carnegie Steel Homestead strike was all the workers being tired of conditions wages and hours and they attempted to bring change but instead brought death and injury
  • Ellis island opens

    Ellis island opens

    Ellis island opens and soon much of other country immigrants would come to the US looking for change a better life and opportunity
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Plessy vs Ferguson

  • The U.S declares war on Spain

    The U.S declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

    Hawaii is annexed

  • Rudyard Kipling published "The White Mans Burden" in "The New York Sun"

    Rudyard Kipling published "The White Mans Burden" in "The New York Sun"

  • Start of Boxer Rebellion

    Start of Boxer Rebellion

    The Chinese were tired of all the western influences in China so after everything was done the would revolve
  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act

  • President McKinley is assassinated and progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

    President 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 US the right to intervene in the western Hem

    The Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the US the right to intervene in the western Hem

  • Upton Sinclair releases the Jungle

    Upton Sinclair releases the Jungle

    After witnessing working conditions and terrible and disgusting behavior with the meat products and terrible sights of huge rats would make Sinclair to write about the scenes
  • Peak year of immigration on Ellis Island

    Peak year of immigration on Ellis Island

    Years after the opening of Ellis Island, the number of immigrants would increase from all over the globe
  • Pure food and drug act and Meat inspection are passed

    Pure food and drug act and Meat inspection are passed

    After the release of The Jungle and many other reasons the laws of pure food and drug act would be passed to keep meat product and other uses clean
  • Henry Ford produces first Model T

    Henry Ford produces first Model T

    Henry Ford produces the first car and it would become today's most useful form of transportation
  • Creation of NAACP

    Creation of NAACP

  • The triangle shirtwaist fire

    The triangle shirtwaist fire

  • The assassination of Austria Archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    The assassination of Austria Archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated would begin one of the deadliest wars of all time
  • Panama Canal is opened for traffic

    Panama Canal is opened for traffic

  • The US enters WWI

    The US enters WWI

    The US would enter the World War bringing in Tanks and entering trench warfare and some of the deadliest face to face battles
  • Ratification of 18th amendment

    Ratification of 18th amendment

  • Women get the right to vote

    Women get the right to vote