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He wanted "the best ... at the lowest price". He had already captured 90% of Americas oil refining and pushed the price down dramatically. He was very poor growing up and when he was older he became one of the richest men alive.
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A federal law that stopped the immigration of Chinese laborers. It was the first law that restricted immigration into the United States. Chinese immigration was suspended for 20 years and then in 1902 it was made permanently illegal. The Chinese were not eligible for citizenship until 1943.
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Ellis Island opened in 1892 as an immigration station, and served that purpose for more than 60 years. It closed in 1954. It's located in between New York and New Jersey. The first person to be processed was a 17 year old girl named Annie Moore from County Cork, Ireland.
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A group of American sugar planter working with Sanford Ballard Dole overthrow queen Liliuokalani. Dole submitted a treaty of annexation but most democrats and Hawaiians didn't want it. Eventually Cleveland sent a new minister to Hawaii to restore the throne to the Queen. In the Spanish-American war the use of the navy base in Hawaii convinced congress to approve a formal annexation and it became our 50th state in 1959.
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They were anti-Christian and anti- Foreign. They targeted people who were trying to colonize and take over china. The rebellion ended when a force invaded the capital and liberated the people being held by the boxers. China had to pay $330 million dollars in reparations.
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He wrote the book to expose the harsh working conditions in the meat packing industry. Because of his book there were many changes in the way food was produced and new federal food safety laws. Roosevelt signed a law that regulated food and drugs on June 30th 1906. On that same day he signed the Meat Inspection Act.
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He invented the first affordable car for the majority of Americans. Over 15 million Model T's were built. They were made from 1908 until 1927. The popular name for the Model T was "Tin Lizzie".
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On March 25th on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floor of the Asch Building fire spread through killing 146 workers. The building only had one fire escape which broke and many worker were crushed. Most of the deaths could have been prevented if there were better safety measures. Because of the fire the city passed the Sullivan- Hoey Fire Prevention Law.
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14,000 U.S. troops landed in France to begin combat training. The entrance of America was long awaited and very appreciated. By the end of the war about 2 million American soldiers had served and 50,000 of them lost their lives.
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On August 26 1920, after years of fighting women got the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucy Stone were important figures in the women's suffrage movement. In 1916 Alice Paul formed the National Woman's Party, they were some of the most influential people in the movement.
