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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of the transcontinental railroad
This railroad gave us access to the whole U.S. via one line, as well as speed up times of delivery, or transportation of people throughout the U.S. This was a major turn of events for the U.S., because the East had railroads already, however, the West had a difficult time putting rails over the rough terrain, making this a great feat. These railroads being completed made trade between all of the U.S. much easier, so there was a rapid amount of trade happening. -
Start of Standard Oil
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Invention of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invented and patented the telephone, this was of course the first successful patent of the device. However there is a lot of controversy to the real inventor of the telephone seeing as how Antonio Meucci made a talking telegraph. And even these were not technically the first telephone, because the tight string in between 2 cans was the first actual telephone. -
Invention of the lightbulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Ellis Island opens
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Homestead Strike
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Plessy V Ferguson
This event was a Supreme Court matter against segregation. There was a doctrine that was known as "separate but equal" allowing racism to occur, without being called racism. This debate in the Court allowed for the Racism to be ended, and the vote was 7 to 1 against Plessy. -
U.S. declares war on Spain
This war was known as the Spanish-American War, and it all started from the sinking of the USS Maine. We had put the Maine next to Cuba to just show that we were ready for war and to support our American entities on that land, and when our ship sunk everyone agreed to war. The war lasted for a little less than a year, and ended by the signing of the Treaty of Paris. -
Hawaii is annexed
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Rudyard Kipling published "The White Man's Burden" in The New York Sun
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Start of the Boxer Rebellion
This rebellion was a rebellion against foreign influence in a country which was once closed off, it was led by a secret group called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists. They were called boxers because of the practices they performed, and believed in, were said to allow them to withstand bullets. In the end, international forces were brought in, including the U.S., and China had to pay over 330 million in repairs. -
Tenement Act
This was one of the first laws to ban against the building of improper housing units. The law required that new buildings must be built with outward-facing windows in every room, an open courtyard, proper ventilation systems, and fire safeguards. This made life a little safer for everyone, and was only created because of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. -
President McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares U.S. right to intervene in the Western Hemisphere
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Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"
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Pure Food and Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
The whole purpose of this act was to keep the food and medicines, or drugs, from being contaminated in any way before consuming. This act directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to test and to inspect products that are being sold, as well as report any offenders. The act required that active ingredients in the drugs must be on a label, and that the drugs could not fall beneath a certain purity level. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Production of the first Model T
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Creation of the NAACP
The purpose of the NAACP at this point in time is to "ensure political, educational, social, and economic equality" to all people, as well as they are trying to rid of racial discrimination where ever it may be. They are a civil rights movement, and was created by W. E. B. DuBois, Mary White Ovington, and Moorfield Storey, as well many other unnamed members who founded them. They have been trying achieve justice for the so called colored, or African American, peoples. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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The Assassination on Austria's archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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U.S. enters enters WWI
Our team in the war was named the Allies, they were Britain, France, and Russia. There were more than 2 million US soldiers fighting overseas, even though many Americans were not with joining the war. The war had changed many aspects of life back at home, such as the fact that women got the right to vote shortly after, as well as politically changing the communities. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment
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Women get the right to vote
Women suffragists began working for their right to vote in the 1800s, however most of them did not live to see their work pay off in 1920. The amendment was first introduced into Congress in 1878, and had almost nobody back up the suffragists. The supporters had a lot of resistance throughout the whole journey on the way to suffrage, some of them were jailed, or physically abused for trying to support their ideas.
