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Alaska is purchased from Russia
Alaska got purchased for 7.2 million -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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John D Rockefeller starts standard oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
He created the first telephone -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
No more Chinese people allowed -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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sherman anti-trust act
People weren't allowed to have monopolies anymore -
Ellis Island opens
over 12 million immigrants entered through here -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy V Ferguson
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Hawaii is annexed
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the US declares war on spain
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Rudyard Kippling 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
first law that banned the construction of poorly ventilated, dark, dirty buildings in New York -
Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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Philippine insurrection comes to an end
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roosevelt corollary to the monroe doctrine declares the US right to intervene in the western hem
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Upton Sinclair releases the jungle
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Pure food and 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
had another name called "Tin Lizzie" -
Creation of the NAACP
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the triangle shirtwiste fire
deadliest disasters in New York City at the time. a fire in a building happened and killed a lot of people -
the assassination on Austria's archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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panama canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The US enters WWI
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ratification of the 18th amendment- prohibition
No more selling, transporting, or making liquor got shut down -
women got the right to vote
19th amendment. women are allowed to vote now!
