1865-1920 Timeline of America

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  • Invention of the Bessemer Process

    Invention of the Bessemer Process

    A steel making process is named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856.
  • Gold Discovered in Pikes Peek

    Gold Discovered in Pikes Peek

    In the first week of July 1858, Green Russell and Sam Bates found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek that yielded about 20 troy ounces (622 grams) of gold, the first significant gold discovery in the Rocky Mountain region.
  • Homestead Act Signing

    Homestead Act Signing

    Abraham Lincoln signed it in 1862, they were laws in which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.
  • Morrill Land Grant Act

    Morrill Land Grant Act

    Act that allows for the creation of land-grant colleges in the US.
  • Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad

    Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad

    Built between 1863-1869 to join eastern and western halves of the US.
  • Battle of little bighorn

    The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne against the US.
  • Farmers alliance created

    ORganized in texas, soon spread to other states.
  • Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb

    Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb

    He invented the lightbulbs that we still used to this day.
  • Carlisle school established

    first government-run boarding school for Native American children
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    The first law restricting immigration into the United States.
  • Edison lights up New York

    Edison lights up New York

    His company flipped the switch with their power station and provided hundreds of homes with electricity and lights.
  • Statue Of Liberty Built

    The entire Statue was completed and assembled in Paris between 1881 and 1884.
  • American Federation of Labor Founded

    National federation of labor unions in the United States.
  • Interstate Commerce Act Passed

    Federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry
  • Dawes Act

    Regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.
  • Jacob Riis published his book of photos

    He published his book of photos, "How the Other Half Lives"
  • Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power

    The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Law which grants the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce.
  • Wounded Knee Massacre

    Massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the US Army.
  • Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west

    He believed the strength and vitality of American identity lay in its land and vast frontier.
  • Phillipines islands are annexed

    In 1898, the United States annexed the Philippines after the Spanish american war.
  • Pullman strike

    walkout by Pullman Palace Car Company factory workers
  • Plessy V Ferguson

    Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality,
  • Holden v hardy

    US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
  • Spanish American War begins

    Began because of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, which led to the United States intervening in the Cuban War of Independence.
  • Hawaii is annexed

    The Hawaiian Islands were annexed by a joint resolution.
  • Newlands Reclamation act

    Law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.
  • Panama Canal is built

    The artificial waterway in Panama connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America.
  • Sinclair’s the Jungle written

    The Jungle is a fictional novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair.
  • U-boats created

    The first German submarine, the U-1, was built in 1905
  • Lochner V. New York

    A case in which the Court held that New York forbidding bakers from working more than 60 hours a week or 10 hours a day violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • Pure Food and drug act passed

    Prohibited sale of misbranded food and drugs in interstate commerce
  • Muller V Oregon

    Case in which the Court found that limiting the number of work for women did not violate the right to contract in the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • Hepner act

    Case about immigration.
  • Founding of the NAACP

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People .
  • 17th adm

    Electing senators by popular vote is now passed.
  • Federal Reserve act

    Created federal reserve system.
  • Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts

    Ford Motor Company team decided to try the moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process.
  • Clayton Antitrust act

    The act prohibits anti-competitive mergers, predatory and discriminatory pricing, and other forms of unethical corporate behavior.
  • US enters WWI

    U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorsed the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I.
  • Beginning of the first World War

    World War I was a major conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918. It was fought between two groups, the Allies and the Central Powers.
  • Lusitania Sunk

    A german submarine sunk the Lusitania and all of it's ammunition and stuff.
  • Selective Service act

    Managed the induction of some 2.8 million men into the armed forces over the next two years and abolished the bounty system.
  • WW1 Ends

    infusion of American troops and resources into the western front finally tipped the scale in the Allies' favor. Germany signed an armistice agreement.
  • 18th adm

    the movement to prohibit alcohol in the us.
  • 19 adm

    prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of gender.
  • Immigration quota act

    Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States.
  • National origins act

    The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States.
  • Scopes trial

    Also known as the monkey trial.