American odyssey

Turn of the Century America

By allysonkeezer

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
    Once the transcontinental railroad was completed it made transporting goods much easier. The time that it took to get something cross country got cut down. Time equals money , the more time something takes the more money it will cost. This railroad also provided jobs,and promoted trading and western expansion.

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

  • 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 known for having over 1000 patents for inventions by the time of his death. His light bulb changed everything. It was no longer need to have gas running into your home.Electricity changed lives forever!

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens
    Ellis island is where 75% of all immigrants came through between 1880-1921. Before it was used for immigration purposes it was used a fort. The original building which was made out of pine, burned down in 1897, a new building opened in 1900.

  • 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

    Tenement Act
    The tenement act outlawed the construction of unsafe buildings. The new housing need to have windows that faced outside, no blocked courtyards, and indoor toilets. The reason for these changes, was that the old tenements caused many diseases to spend rapidly which would then cause many deaths.

  • Pres. 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 Hem

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

    Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
    The pure food and drug act was passed after Upton Sinclair published his novel "The Jungle". The horrors that the booked showed made people want to take action against the meat packing industry.This act made the meat and drugs that would be sold would have to be up to specific standards in order to be sold.

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

    Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
    The Upton Sinclair novel "the Jungle" showed the horrors of the meat backing industry. The booked told the story of how there were rat feces and lost human fingers in the ground meat. It also showed that they would use embalming fluid to make old meat look fresh again.

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
    The Triangle Shirtwaste fire changed the building requirements in New York and eventually the rest of the country. This fire took the life of 146 man and women and probably children. These death could have been avoided , only the the doors were kept unlocked and if there were sufficient fire escapes.

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

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
    The panama canal is a man made canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Making this canal saved time and money, because ship no longer had to go all the way around the tip of South America. The place were the canal stands was originally owned by Colombia until the United States helped the Panamanians gain there independence. We helped them gain their independence so we could build the canal.

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

    Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
    The 18th Amendment ratified that it was illegal to sell any type of alcohol.People who supported prohibition thought that alcohol was responsible for the elevated crime rate, and violence against women.The main people who supported prohibition were women, and members of the protestant church.

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.
    The 19th Amendment was ratified which gave women the right to vote. This was important because women where not give the same rights of men which was unconstitutional. The united states fought for Independence , because people were being taxed without representation, which is what was happening to women.