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Turn of the century timeline

By Rosecha

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

    John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
    American Industry, Rockefeller built his first oil refinery in 1870. It took him about 12 years to get a monopoly of the oil business in the U.S. Eventually his hard work for getting such a good business help pass the law of antitrust.

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

  • Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    It was actually an act that was used to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to the Chinese. The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. It ended up prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

    Hawaii is annexed
    The event made U.S territory expand all the way into the Pacific. Hawaii was not legally annexed by the U.S. The united states wanted Hawaii because of their sugar plantations.

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

  • Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)

    Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)
    I think this was one of the most important things going on in the 1900´s because itś showing how everyone is advancing and improving. Building the Model T was a big thing for Henry ford. Being able to have a car was rare, you would have to have a lot of money. There weren´t a lot of cars because of the fact that it was something new and different and everyone was used to walking or riding horses.

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

  • The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.
    It was the 19th amendment to the U.S constitution. States that women are allowed to vote and shall not be denied. No sex would be able to not vote.