United states problems are turn century problems

Turn of the Century

By pinkecam

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

  • John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil

    John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil

    Standard Oil was a safer oil to use to light your house.

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

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

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    The invention of the light bulb decreases the need for standard oil.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    The Chinese Exclusion Act was a law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese people.

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

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island was where European immigrants went to be conducted with inspections.

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

    Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

    This strike was due to the fact that Carnagie was making his employees work more for less pay.

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

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

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

    The start of the Boxer Rebellion

    The Boxer Rebellion was a movement in China that was against Japanese and Western influence.
  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act

    Tenements were apartment-like buildings that were unsafe to live in. This law created guidelines and standards of living.

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

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

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

  • 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

    After a book about the horrors of food processing, this law was made to ensure no unhealthy conditions of production of food.
  • Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

    Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

    The invention of the car changes America. Now it is a standard for everyone to own a car.

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire killed 146 women working in the factory, they tried to get out but all of their safety procedures worked. This led to a higher standard of workplace.

  • 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

  • Women got the right to vote

    Women got the right to vote

    The women's suffrage movement lasted almost 100 years and women finally got their right to vote.