20 of the most important events in US history

  • The light bulb

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    The Haymarket Riot

  • Morrill Acts

  • Creation of the Populist Party

  • Spanish-American War

  • The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)

  • Niagara Movement

  • US enters WW1

  • Espionage Act

  • New Opportunities for Women

  • National Labor War Board

  • the end of WW1

  • The Eighteenth Amendment

  • the Nineteenth Amendment

  • The Flu Pandemic

  • The Automobile

  • The Stock Market Crash

  • The Great Depression

  • Franklin Roosevelt elected president

  • Social Security Act