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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
The Transcontinental Railroad was one of the biggest things to happen in American Transportation. The railroad allowed for better and easier transportation across the US. It also opened up and large variety of jobs. -
John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
When Bell invented the telephone it was a huge deal. It opened up a pathway for communication in America. This would also open up a lot of jobs and more opportunity for people. -
Thomas Edison invents the light bulb
When Edison invented the light bulb it was a huge deal. It was one of the biggest innovations of the century. This discovery brought so many different opportunities and innovations to come -
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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Ellis Island opens
Ellis Island was a big push in immigration in the U.S. When the island opened it was the check point that all the immigrants from Europe had to go through to get to the U.S. many people didn't make it through and had to be turned down and go back home due to heath reasons. -
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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U.S. declares war on Spain
The ensuing Spanish–American War resulted in a decisive victory for the United States, and arguably served as a transitional period for both nations. Spain saw its days of empire fade, as the United States saw the prospect of overseas empire emerge. -
Hawaii is annexed
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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
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Tenement Act
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to can end
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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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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"
Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford produces first Model T
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
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The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
The political reason for the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be combined into a new country, Yugoslavia. Was organized by the Black Hand. -
The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The United States enters WW1
Under the command of Major General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France. Many Americans were not in favor of the U.S. entering the war and wanted to remain neutral. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Woman get the right to vote
The Representation of the People Act 1918 saw British women over 30 gain the vote, Dutch women in 1919, and American women won the vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
