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Alaska is purchase from Russia
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Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Ellis Island opens
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. -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Hawaii is annexed
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. -
The U.S. declares war on Spain
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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. -
Tenement Act
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Western Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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. -
Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)
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". -
Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
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. -
The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The United States enters WWI
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. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
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.
