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Alaska is purchased by Russia
The United States reached a agreement to purchased Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars. The treaty was signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister Edouard de Stoeckl. Baranov established the R.A.C. and was granted a monopoly over Alaska. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
The Transcontinental Railroad has been a dream for people living in the American West.The one goal for it was to separated foreign countries. It also divided the East and West and even linked the nation to a foreign countries. -
John D. Rockefeller standard oil
He built his first oil refinery in Cleveland and he incorporated the name Standard Oil Company. He had almost had a monopoly but his business practices led to the anti trust law. He did everything to absolute DOMINATE the oil company. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
He was once a teacher for the deaf and got and idea of electronic speech. His experiments in sound eventually let him to send voice signals down a telegraph wire .The telephone changed the world and opened a wide world of communication. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
It was the property of resisting the heat of the current of electricity but at the same time it becomes incandescent. And gives out one of the most brilliant lights. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese exclusion act was an immigration law that prevented from immigrating the United States. It suspended the Chinese Immigration for ten years. The act was passed by congress and signed by Pres. Arthur. It lasted for 10 years and was extended for another 10 years by the Geary act. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor(AFL)
The main purpose for the AFL was to organize skilled workers into national unions in the same trade. The purpose was not political and aimed to make the hours shorter, higher wages and better working conditions. Samuel Gompers was the most significant person in the history of American labor. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
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Ellis Island opens
There were many reasons for people to immigrate to America and no reason for what would come from five years. Then there was this new main building and was opened to 2,251 immigrants. It served as a immigration procession station. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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Hawaii is annexed
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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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Tenement Act
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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 Western Hem
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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
The Austrian Hungary saw this was a clear sign of attack on there country. They believed that the Serbians had helped the Bosnian terrorists in there attack. The annexation they had angered the Serbian nationalist who believed the territories should be part of them. -
The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The United States enters WWI
Knowing the risks of provoking the United States to joining the war. The Germany's gambled on defeating them before the U.S. began to mobilize. They wanted them to target a neutral shipping in a designated war zone was the immediate cause of entry of the United States. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
