Trench warfare

Turn of the Century

By curtisam

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem

  • Alaska purchased from Russia

  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    The invention of the telephone made communication for businesses all over America easier. As time went on, communication became better evolved with the use of the internet. Overall, the invention of the telephone has changed America and the way it functions.
  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Edison wasn't the first to invent the light bulb, but he invented a light that people would be able to put in their houses. It would forever revolutionize indoor lighting and forever separate light from fire. Also, it enabled humans to extend the length of the day.

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

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island helped many immigrants enter the United States. To this day, about 40% of U.S. citizens can trace their heritage back to someone that came through Ellis Island. The United States is filled with people, and many of them could be descendants of the Ellis Island immigrants.

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

    Hawaii is annexed

    The annexation of Hawaii has led to the United States' furthered territory in the Pacific. By obtaining this Pacific territory, it has made the U.S. one of the highest Pacific Powers. Today, Hawaii is one of the United States' main resources for sugar.

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

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

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

    Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

    After Mckinley passed, Roosevelt took office, and many of the Americans knew it would be a turning point for America. Theodore Roosevelt is known to be a great man that helped create and maintain national parks all over the U.S. To this day, all though sad, President Mckinley's death may have been a turn of a page in a book for America.

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

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

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

    Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

    The Model T has affected the United States and the world for obvious reasons. The invention of the Model T led to the start of the numbered highway system which is used all over America today. Once the Model T was invented, the United States began to boom with mobility.

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    After the fire, that was due to bad and unsafe working conditions, was put out, Americans knew it was time to change the way they worked. A series of laws were passed to increase the working environment for workers. The new regulations would protect the safety of all workers across America like it does today.
  • The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    The assassination of Austria's Archduke Ferdinand had set off a chain of rapid events. Austria-Hungary went straight to the conclusion that the Serbian government was the cause of it. Ferdinand's assassination was the beginning of world war 1.

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States enters WWI

    The United States enters WWI

    When the United States entered WW1 it changed everything. The U.S. helped change the tide in favor of France and Britain, and lead to a victory over Germany and Austria. After the war, it changed the economic balance of the world.

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.

    The 19th amendment gave women more equality and freedom. It also gave hope to colored people that they would have freedom in the future. Today, women in America have many freedoms, and they are able to do whatever a man can do.