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Alaska is Purchased by Russia
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Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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Rockefeller starts standard oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invents Telephone
The process of making the telephone didn't happen over night. Graham Bell and some other inventors worked very hard trying to figure out how to communicate with people from a long distance. Once it was finished it was great and people loved it. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
It took a long time for the light bulb to be invented and Edison wasnt the only one trying to invent the light bulb he was just the one who perfected it. It was very popular and useful for people in the late 1800s -
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Opening of Ellis Island
Ellis Island was the first and largest federal immigrant processing station and it received over 12 million Americans between 1892 and 1954 -
Carnegie Steel Homestead Strike
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Plessy vs Ferguson
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Annexation of Hawaii
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U.S. declares war on spain
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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Start of Boxer rebellion
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Tenement Act
A reform of the progressive era. Banned the construction of these poorly built and dark buildings because it was dangerous to live there. -
. Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem
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Upton sinclair released the jungle
The meat industries were absolutely unacceptable because of thje danger people were in if they ate some of this meat. It was poorly treated and needed to be exposed and was by Upton Sinclair and he caused laws that made meat much safer to eat -
Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
Thanks to journalists called muckrakers word got out that the way people were handling and packing meat was absolutely unacceptable. It was being sold when there was a good chance that it would be dangerous to eat. This act made eating meat much safer for people. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry ford produces first model t
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Creation of NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is what it stands for. Colored people were sick and tired of being treated horribly just because of their skin color. The NAACP helped a great amount with the end of Black discrimination. -
Triangle shirtwaste fire
This fire was in a factory in New York. There were women working there and when the fire started they couldn't get out because the doors were locked so they tried the fire escape and it collapsed. Even though the deaths were tragic this caused safety laws for factories. -
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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U.S. enters WWI
Germany kept pushing us by sinking our ships but the Zimmerman note pushed us over the edge. The entire nation was angry and entering the war was the only option because we wanted them to pay. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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women got the right to vote
Women fought long and hard for equality and suffrage was a big part of being equal. It opened a door then people were more accepting of them and they would soon be able to do most anything and be completely equal.
