Turn of the century

By Terry Ginyard
  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska is purchased from Russia

    untied states agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million this was the treaty of Russia,

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    this was his best invention but also followed by a lot of lawsuits he created the telephone as electronic speech after seeing is half death mother

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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    Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

    The Bolsheviks withdrew Russia from WWI and removed troops from eastern front allows Germany to eye in on France.
  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    Sherman Anti-trust Act

    the first federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. the first measure passed by US congress to prohibit trust

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

  • Tenement Act

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

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • 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 Wesern Hem

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

    Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

    is a 1904 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair talks about the life of immigrants in Chicago
  • Creation of the NAACP

    Creation of the NAACP

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization created to advance African Americans as a group
  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city
    there was 146 deaths and had 71 non fatal injuries.
  • The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    They believed that the Serbians had helped the Bosnian terrorists in the attack,. When Serbia rejected the demands, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

  • 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 United States enters WWI

    The United States enters WWI

    untied states joined Britain, France, and Russia under command of major general John Pershing, this also made the selective act happen the draft of men age of 21-30

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote

    Women got the right to vote

    He 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote, there was a big protest about it that helped the plead to give women the right to vote