turn of the century

By aubreahtrotter

  • alaska is puchased from russia

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

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    Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • completion of the transcontinental railroad

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    completion of the transcontinental road

  • John D Rockefeller started standard oil

    john rockefeller noticed a problem of how hard it is to get oil and how little oil they get out of it. he found out how to make oil that would be 100 % promised. he then made his own oil refinary and sold millions.
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    John D Rockefeller creates standard oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander was known for making the first working telephone in the world. He solved a problem of communication by making the telephone. He made the telephone in 1876

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

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    thomas edison makes the lightbulb

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    Alexander Grahm bell invents the telephone

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    chinese exclusion act

    The Chinese exclusion act was law to not let the Chinese immigrants into America. The Americans didn’t want the Chinese immigrants in America because the Americans felt as if they were taking there jobs. They discriminated against the Chinese thus passing a law to let them not come here.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    the chinese exclusion act was a law restricting chinese immigrants to come to america. the americans blamed the chinese immagrants for taking americans jobs. they racially profilled againts the chinese and wanted them to stop coming to america.

  • Samuel Gompers founded the AFL

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    Samuel Gompers founded the AFL

  • Rudyard published "the white mans burden" in the new york sun

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

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    Sherman antitrust act

  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis island is a island were immigrants went through. Ellis island is located in New York, it led millions of new immigrants through america. Ellis island closed in 1954.
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    Ellis island opens

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

    carnegie wanted more profit, so he made longer work ours, more working days and lower salary. the steel company wasnt going to let that happen without a fight. the homestead strike is them striking against the owners of the company to get better pay and less hours.
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    carnigie steels homestead strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

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    Plessy vs Ferguson

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

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    the U.S. declares war on spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

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    hawaii is annexed

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Tenement Act

    the world got to see what tenement houses were like. the world got to see how run down and unhealthy they were to live in. thus the president passed an act to make laws to make sure they are up to date and up to code, they built more schools and parks in those areas as well.

  • 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 Wesern Hem

  • Upton Sinclair releases "the jungle"

    Sinclair wrote about the harsh and unhealthy living conditions of immigrants who came to america. he also wrote about the meat factory and how they were doing really unhealthy things to our meat. with his book "the jungle" two laws got passed, the drug and food act as well as the other one to regulate health standards.

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

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Henry Ford produced his first Model T

  • Creation of the NAACP

    The NAACP is the national association for the advancement of colored people. It was an organization to ensure a society of equal rights. The African Americans weren’t treated equally so thus made the NAACP.

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

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

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote.

    women getting the right to vote is a part of the 19th amendment. the american women suffrage association was organized . the same year the organization was made they passed the law