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America bought Alaska from Russia
It brought another state to the united states and an awesome place -
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
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Obviously, we need light so when Thomas Edison was able to give that to us it was a big deal wand the start to future technological advances -
Chinese Exclusion act
This is significant because the Chinese were not being allowed to live in certain places or work in certain places -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Ellis Island Opens
We opened Ellis Island to have a place to bring immigrants through to test them and get them registered. -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy V. Ferguson
A court case based on the simplest act of a black man doing something that was considered only a white guys aloud to do so they went all the way up to the supreme court just to have them rule separate but equal which is legal segregation -
Hawaii is Annexed
We basically stole Hawaii and forced his leader to give it to us at gun point. -
Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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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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Tenement Act
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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
The jungle showed what was going on in Meat Packing plants and how no one was concerned about the safety of people when it comes to the food they were producing so they then created acts to help with that. -
Pure Food & Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act are passed
Meat packaging companies were horrible and just added anything to the meat to pass it on to these acts were created to make sure that the way they made meat were healthy. -
Henry Ford produced his first Model T
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Creation of NAACP
An organization that helps create equality for colored people -
The triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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The Assassination on Austrias archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The U.S. enters WWI
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment
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Women got the right to vote
Women fought for years during suffrage to get the right to vote so it was a big deal when they were able too -
The U.S. declares war on Spain
