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Alaska is purchased from Russia
We obtanied Alaska through a treaty with Russia in 1867. The whole purchase came to be known as Sewards at Folly many people thought the land was useless. Later we learned of its mass natural resouces. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander changed the way and pase the way we communicate. He started working on the harmonic telgraph in 1871.On June 2nd 1875 Bell and his assitant Thomas watson convected the first succesfull test to what is now the telephone. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
If it wasnt for Thomas we wouldnt have light. It changed the hours in witch we could work. You no longer needed the sun to do things that required light. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Work conditions were very poor. Companies were able to get with harsh working condtions. Orginze labor unions helped bring better condition and pay for workers. -
Tenement Act
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Hawaii is annexed
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Ellis Island opens
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
It was important because it helped establish the US as a world power.The war was ended by the treaty of paris in 1898. SPains defeat marked their decline on world power. -
Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
The boxer rebellion started in north China. China wanted a open door policy. Missionaries is what led to the boxer rebellion -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern 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
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The United States enters WWI
over 2 million US soilders fought on battlefield. We got into war because Germany was sinkning a lot of US ships. It was one of the deadlist confilcts of world history. -
Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
It shrunk the US because people could go further in less time. The invention of the model T was also the invention called assembley line. They were producing more cars in the matter of minutes because of the assembly line. -
Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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Women got the right to vote.
It was a start for womens movement for equality. Women didnt want to be viewed lesser then men. It helped path the way for other equality issues -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
The 18th amendement gave life mob. It is how the Kennedys made a bunch of money. It gave rise to nas car.
