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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander was interested in sound because both his parents were deaf. He formed his own telephone company called Bell Telephone Company. Things in the company have changed, even then name, today it is known as AT&T. -
Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Edison made over 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. It changed the way most people lived their lives, they could do things when it got dark. The lamp would only burn for a couple of hours though. The light bulb worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum wire. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Ellis Island Opens
It was a place where immigrants came to escape poverty and religious intolerance. It served the purpose of doing that for over 60 years. Over the 60 years, 120,000 immigrants were went sent back and about 3,000 died there. -
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike
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Plessy vs Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
Spain forced Cubans into slavery and thousands of them died from starvation and disease. The U.S. was along the side with the Cubans for economic and trade reasons, so they wanted to help. The first battle between the U.S. and Spain happened at Manila Bay in the Philippines. -
Hawaii is annexed
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Rudyard Kipling published "The White Man's Burden" in The New York Sun
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
A secret society in China known as the Boxers went on a violent campaign to get all foreigners away from China. Several countries sent troops to stop the attacks. There was an effect on this and it actually made China have a weak dynasty. -
The Philippine Insurraction comes to an end
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Tenement Act
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Western Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"
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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
It is required that all food and drugs are meant for human consumption, strict testing to make sure of cleanliness and safeness. They were needed for preventing poisonous, misbranded, and manufactured. They were both passes by Theodore Roosevelt. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
The model T had a 22-horsepower, four-cylinder engine and was made of heat-treated steel, which made it lighter. It could only go up to 40 mph, and could run on gasoline or hemp-based fuel. Henry reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two and a half. -
Creation of the NAACP
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The 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
It is one of the largest construction projects ever to become, engineers, moved nearly 240 million cubic yards, spent close to $400 million in constructing the 40-mile long canal. -
The United States enters WWI
It started when Germany sank many American merchant ships around the British Isles. The U.S. also joined with its allies- Britain, France, and Russia to go into the War. More than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on the battlefields in France. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote
In the early years of the movement, there was more than just the right to vote. Their goals were equal access to education and employment, custody over her children, and equality within marriage. After the Civil War, many rights activists came to part ways with the women's suffrage act.
