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Turn of the Century

By Allencha

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
    This is the start of America's Economy. This helped with westward expansion.This also started the major movement of supplies from one coast to the other.

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • 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
    Thomas Edison expands on technological advancements, and lets America work more efficiently in the night. Factories can now run through the night, so the industrial part of America gets stronger. The light bulb also made America have a night life, so no one was controlled by the sun anymore.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    Sherman Anti-trust Act
    Monopolies were getting out of hand and were making the qualities of items drop, due to not having competition. The anti-trust act stopped monopolies from being as prevalent. The government accessed the company and kept them from dropping their standards, for the greater good of the citizens.

  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens
    As Ellis Island opens the rush of immigration really begins. America start to prepare for these people and tries to help as many people as they could. With all these immigrants America was growing and really becoming more of a country.

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

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

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

  • 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 Wesern 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
    The government enforcing safe food and drugs laws helps the health of America. Healthy America means jobs will run more efficiently.

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

  • Creation of the NAACP

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

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States enters WWI

    The United States enters WWI
    This showed off that America had power, and had a voice. America wouldn't stand for their casualties.

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.
    As women gained the right to vote America grew and really followed through with the idea of democracy for all. This also was another step towards helping with suffrage for African Americans too.