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Turn of the Century

By h_a_i_l_s

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
    Bell creating the telephone played a significant part in history. The telephonechanged the way people communicate. He was the first to get it patened even he didn't actually create it.

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

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
    Thomas Edison was described as one of the greatest inventors. He invented the light buld the change the world for ever. With the light buld people could start doing more things at night.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

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

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

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

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • Henry Ford produced his first Model T

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

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

    Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
    The Pure Food & Drug Act getting passed was a big part for U.S history. People were eating unsanitary and drug filled foods. This getting passed made food much more healthy.

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    This fire broke out throuh out the very top floors of the building. THis killed 146 workers. This is a very significant event because people could still be working in dangerous places.

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

    The Assassination of Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
    He was trying to make peace with Serbia. The Black Hand arranged his assassination.If Franz Ferdinad was never assassinated WWI might have not happened.

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States enters WWI

    The United States enters WWI
    The U.S entered the war due to Germany blowing up one their ships that over 200 citizens on it. Germany tried keeping the U.S out of the war by telling Mexico the would get their land back.

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.
    Women finally got the right after going on strikes and having parades. Many women were arrested because they went on strike while the U.S declared war. The law was finally passed 2 years after the war ended.