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Alaska is purchased from Russia
Russia was out of money and needed it bad. They had to start selling. They thought they would swindle the U.S and sell them Alaska but it turns out the Alaska had abundance of gold -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone 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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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Ellis Island opens
Ellis Island is in the upper part of NYC. It was used as a place for immigrants to come into america. There where a series of test that new immigrants had to do in order to come into the country. -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
The Spanish -American war, started on April 25,1898 .After the sinking of the Battleship Maine. The war ended with the signing of the treaty of Paris -
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 Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
The Chinese wanted all non Chinese out. They were taking whatever they wanted and where not giving the Chinese anything in return. And they where trying to change the religion of the people -
Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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Tenement Act
The Tenement Act was one of the reforms of the progressive Era. it was passed in 1901. It made public places for people to live a lot safer. -
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
This novel portrayed the harsh conditions of immigrants in the United States and Chicago and similar industrialized cities. It opened peoples eyes on the way there meat was being handled and many people got sick and died from there neglect. And the government finally put a stop to it. -
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)
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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
Franz was the heir to the throne of Austria and a terrorist organization killed him and his wife. This happend during a peace parade in Switzerland. The group that killed him and his wife called themselves the black hand. -
The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The United States enters WWI
In February 1917 the U.S entered "The War to End All Wars". This started after the Germans sunk a cruise liner with lots of passengers on board including 128 Americans. Which did not initially bring them into the war but was a major stepping stone. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
American women gained the right to vote by the passing of the 19 amendment in 1920. Beginning it the 1800's women petitioned and fought for the right o vote but it took them decades to to win this right.It was a long and hard battle for women to gain the right to vote and the start of WWI made it even harder.
