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Turn of the Century

By thompaar
  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

    The Transcontinental Railroad links the United States from the east to west. It is 1776 miles long! The railroad was also called the Pacific Railroad and the Overland Route.

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    The first telephone was built using a water microphone. It cost $9 for the first 5 minutes of the phone call. The telephone itself costs $100,000.

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

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

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Before Thomas Edison and his group of people found the perfect formula, they had to try 3,000 different designs. The first light bulb is still burning today. The light bulb is now 110 years old.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Ellis Island Opens

    Ellis Island Opens

    The island is located in New York and was a immigration stop for people wanting to enter America. The other immigration port is called Angel Island. In the early 1800's, it was used for pirate hangings.

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

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

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

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

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act

    This act prevented the construction of unsafe and poor tenement buildings. This required the buildings to have windows, bathrooms, fire exits, and other safety features like that. Most of the tenements are in New York.

  • 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”

    Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" is about the meat factories that were running in the early 20th century. The meat was not kept at the right temperature which made the meat spoil fast. They still sold the spoiled meat which made a great amount of people sick.

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

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

    Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

    Henry Ford is the creator of the company Ford Motor Company. He was a very mean man and treated his employees terribly. Ford is now the second largest family owned company in the world.

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    This fire happened in New York City. It was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. History. 146 people died in total.

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

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

    Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

    The 18th amendment prohibited liquor and the creation of it. This made a good amount of people angry and they didn't listen and made their own in bathtubs. Eventually, they saw that prohibition actually caused more violence so the government ratified it.
  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.

    This was the 19th amendment. Women's suffrage was a big topic back then and was highly discussed.Although, people living in the U.S. colonies still could not vote.