The U.S purchased Alaska from Russia after reaching an agreement. It was signed by the Secretary of State and Russian Minister. The deal costed the U.S. $7.2 million from Russia.
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
The American West had been waiting
John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Ellis Island opens
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Sherman Anti-trust Act
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
Plessy v Ferguson
Hawaii is annexed
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
Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)
Creation of the NAACP
The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem
The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
