Turn of the Century

By Jenni78

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

    The railroad meet in Promontory, Utah where the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads drove a ceremonial spike into the rail line and connected them. A lot of people died due to harsh conditions and brutal work hours.
  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

    John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

    Standard Oil started in Ohio and Rockefeller started it with his younger brother William, Henry Flagler, and a group of other men. John was its president and largest shareholder.
  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    The fist message was from Bell to his assistant - "Mr. Watson, come here, I need you.". This was three days after the filling the patent.

  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the lightbulb

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  • Ellis island Opens

    Ellis island Opens

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • 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

  • 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 Western Hem.

  • Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"

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

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T

    Henry Ford produces his first Model T

  • Creation of the NAACP

    Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

  • The Assassination of Austria's archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    The Assassination of 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

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote

    Women got the right to vote