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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet. Promontory Utah and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads. -
John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
Standard Oil Company became one of the world’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. Born into modest circumstances in upstate New York. Rockefeller entered the then-fledgling oil business in 1863 by investing in a Cleveland Ohio refinery. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Bell became very interested in the possibility of transmitting speech over wires. Samuel Morse’s invention of the telegraph in 1843 had made nearly instantaneous communication possible between two distant points. He was also the first person to get a patent on the telephone. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Thomas Edison didn’t come up with the whole concept. The light bulb was the first that proved practical, and affordable, for home illumination. Edison was the first one to make the light bulb small enough and safe enough to put in houses. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Ellis Island opens
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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Hawaii is annexed
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion a Chinese secret organization called the Society. The Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. They fought for a very long time. -
Tenement Act
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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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. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Western Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Henry Ford produces his first Model T
The Model T, also known as the “Tin Lizzie,” changed the way Americans live, work and travel. Henry Ford’s revolutionary advancements in assembly-line automobile manufacturing made the Model T the first car to be affordable for a majority of Americans. -
. Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned, killing 145 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. -
The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The United States enters WWI
When World War I erupted in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson pledged neutrality for the United States, a position favored by the vast majority of Americans. Britain, however, was one of America’s closest trading partners, and tension soon arose between the United States and Germany over the latter’s attempted quarantine of the British Isles. -
Women got the right to vote
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor
