Turn of the Century Project Brandon P.

By philabra

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska is purchased from Russia
    The U.S purchased Alaska from Russia after reaching an agreement. It was signed by the Secretary of State and Russian Minister. The deal costed the U.S. $7.2 million from Russia.

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
    The American West had been waiting

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

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

  • Ellis Island opens

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

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

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • 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

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

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

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

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

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

  • 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