Political cartoon

Turn Of The Century

By Alexa-Bailey

  • Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska is purchased from Russia

    It was a real steal price, a very big resource to the US. We had believed that we were going to expand into what we know today as Canada. The president who bought it (Andrew Johnson)thought that he had made a mistake not to long after he bought it, they referred to it as ''Seward's Folly''
  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

    The Transcontinental Railroad was a major breakthrough in transportation. Not just human transport but also the transport of materials and daily necessities.

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

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

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

    Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

    Unions were formed. People got better wages and better hours. Even now, unions were exempt from ObamaCare and they have better insurance than OC. (That's why Alexa has braces)

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • 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

    Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

    The assassination of President McKinley had a huge impact on the US people. After his death Teddy took over and he went after monopolies formed national parks

  • 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

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

    Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

    Ford lowered his prices. More middle class were finally able to buy cars. Although the boys in the street weren't able to play baseball in the street anymore because they would break a window rather than just hit a wagon or horse.

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The fire led to safety protocols. 146 deaths of the people, mostly teenagers, in the factory burned to death or jumped to their death. It became a role model for the rest of the country.
  • The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    His death led to World War 1, shot by a Serbian terrorist. This single action brought so much death and devastation. After his death Austria-Hungary declared war.
  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    It was built faster than expected and under budget. It was built in 10 years. The US owns the canal.
  • The United States enters WWI

    The United States enters WWI

    After the US had intercepted the "Zimmerman telegram" they finally decided that it was time to get involved. To have Germany ask Mexico to start a war with us. For the first year, we just trained with barrels and broomsticks.
  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.

    For the past 10-20 years, women had worked very hard to get the right to vote. During the war, while all the able men were away for the war, women had taken over and supported the states taking men's jobs. It was after that that women got the rights they had fought for.

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition