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When the Transconitinetal railroad was completed the nation was changed. These tracks connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads. The railroad employed over 12,000 workers to construct the tracks.
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The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad took place in Utah. This joined the tracks of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads. Over 12,000 workers worked to complete the rails.
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Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the The United States as a teacher for the deaf kids and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired mother in Canada
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Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He also invented a device called the Graphophone. He came to the The United States as a teacher for the deaf kids and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired mother in Canada.
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Seventeen-year-old Annie Moore, from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot. Immigrants had to go through welfare checks. These would weed out any immigrants that were ill and would not be able to work.
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The Homestead strike, in Pennsylvania. This was one of the most powerful new corporations. Carnegie Steel Company was against the nation's strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
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The Homestead strike is also known as the Homestead steel strike. Many people refer to it as the Homestead massacre. It was an industrial lockout and strike which was a pivotal event in U.S. labor history.
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Plessy v Ferguson was a supreme court decision that upheld segregation in the U.S. The court decided this after a African American man refused to sit in the back of a train car. Known to be "separate but equal."
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The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising against foreigners that occurred in China about 1900. It began by peasants but eventually supported by the government. A Chinese secret society known as the Boxers embarked on a violent campaign to drive all foreigners from China. Several countries sent troops to halt the attacks.
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President McKinely was the 25th president of the United States. He was killed by Leon Czolgosz. President Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States.
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Upton Sinclair released "The Jungle", a novel about the harsh lives and exploitation of immigrants in the united states. This book started up controversy around the country. Sinclair also wrote many other books.
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The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was created by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. These laws allowed for people to have certain standards of meat factories. It also made sure that food was held to a certain standard.
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After years of women's suffrage, women finally got the right to vote. This amendment allowed women to not be denied the right to vote in the U.S. Women would not be denied many rights after this law was passed.
