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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
One hundred fifty years ago, the first transcontinental railroad in the United States was completed, and our Nation was changed forever. On May 10, 1869 -
John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
He founded oil and his oil company. He made standard oil for lights. And got rich off it. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876. Bell wanted to build a phonautograph, but he wanted it to. Approximate a human ear to test whether the sound waves could transform into recognizable symbols -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The mass emigration, which occurred from the 19th century to 1949 was mainly caused by wars and starvation in mainland China.United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. Prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924. He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL trying to minimize jurisdictional battles.Labor leader, cigar maker. -
Alaska is purchased from Russia
On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. Several states had passed similar laws, but they were limited to intrastate businesses. The Sherman Antitrust Act was based on the constitutional power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. -
Ellis Island opens
Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892. And 12 million immigrants came through Ellis island. Built of wood, it was completely destroyed by fire on June 15, 1897. -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
Homestead strike in U.S. history, a bitterly fought labor dispute.On June 29, 1892, workers belonging to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers struck the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead. to protest a proposed wage cut. -
Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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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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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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Tenement Act
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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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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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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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The United States enters WWI
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
By January 1879, at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light. Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention the light bulb. Though he didn't come up with the whole concept.
