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Turn of the Century

By buchabry

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • 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

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    President Chester A. Arthur signed a United States federal law, this was called the Chinese Exclusion Act. This was the first law restricting immigration into the U.S. The law was passed due to concerns about maintaining white racial purity.

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

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    Sherman Anti-trust Act

    The first Federal Act that outlawed monopolistic business practices was the Sherman Anti-trust Act. It is a federal law prohibiting any trust, contract, or conspiracy. The purpose was to maintain free competition in business.

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike

  • Plessy vs. 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

    Tenement Act

    The Tenement Act was one of the reforms of the Progressive Era. This was one of the first law to ban the building of weakly ventilated buildings. The word 'tenement' is both a legal term and a word used to refer to a type of multi-family housing.

  • President 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 Hemisphere

  • Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"

    Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"

    The Jungle was a novel written to expose the Meat-Packing Industry. The meat as rotten, disease, and contaminated by rats. This led to many angry people and different meat laws.

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

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)

    Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)

    The Model Twas so important because it turned the world into a more advanced place. Owning a car could finally be true. They were built in Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan.
  • Creation of the NAACP

    Creation of the NAACP

    NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The main purpose was to ensure educational, social, political, and economic equality. It was founded by W.E.B, Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.
  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a factory fire in New York City. Which killed 145 workers. Doors were locked, therefore workers were forced to either jump to their death or burn.

  • 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

    In WWI the U.S. allies were Britain, France, and Russia. More than 2 million solders fought for the U.S. army. Most Americans wanted to remain neutral and stay out of WWI.
  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment- Prohibition

    Ratification of the 18th Amendment- Prohibition

    The 18th Amendment did not prohibit consumption of alcohol, but instead allowed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. This amendment did more bad than good. It is also the only amendment to be repealed.
  • Women got the right to vote

    Women got the right to vote

    The 19th Amendment allows women to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucy Stone fought for equality for many years. The first women to vote was Lydia Taft.