turn of the century

By stigerae

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska is purchased from Russia
    The United States reached an agreement to buy Alaska from Russia. Alaska was bought at a price of $7.2 million. Russia offered us Alaska because they were in debt from a war. The United States didn't buy it at first because of Civil War debts.

  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

  • John D. Rockefeller

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. He was asked to help perfect the harmonic telegraph. Bell was more eager to make a voice transmitting device. Then the telephone was invented.

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

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
    Thomas Edison was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork during the process of inventing. He developed many devices in fields. His team and him went through more than 3,000 designs for the bulb.

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

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    The law was prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. This was the first law implemented to prevent all members of a specific ethnic group. The act was initially intended for 10 years but it was made permanent in 1902

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act
    This act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. It prohibited any contract, trust, or conspiracy in restraint of interstate or foreign trade

  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens
    Ellis Island was an immigration station mostly arriving from Europe. 12 million immigrants arrived at Ellis Island to find a better life. Not that many were turned away and sent back.

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • 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

    The start of the Boxer Rebellion
    The Boxer Rebellion happened between November 2, 1899- September 7, 1901. A Chinese secret organization led an uprising in northern China against the spread of western and Japanese influence.

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act
    One of the first laws to ban the construction of dark, poorly ventilated tenement buildings in the state of New York. They had to rebuild the buildings so that they were ideal for someone to live in and weren't poorly built.

  • Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt become President

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to and end

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Western 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)
    The Ford Model T was named the most influential car of the 20th century. It was reliable, easily maintained, mass-market transportation and it was a runaway success. Was produced between 1908-1927

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  • The Assassination on Austria's archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment- Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote

    Women got the right to vote
    Women getting the right to vote was a very long and difficult thing. It took them decades to get the goal that they wanted. They began in the early 1800s and they didn't meet their goal till the early 1900s.