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The two railroads companies building the railroad finally meet in odgen, utah
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Attempts are made at cornering the black market by jay gould and james fisk
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The Credit Mobilier was a railroad construction company. Con gress members recieved free stock for protecting them from investigation of financail irregulation
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this provided for the replacement of all the civil war fractional currency with silver coins
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The compromise ended reconstuction in the south and settled the presidental election of 1876
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prohibitied chinese immigration until 1943
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boosted rates to their highest pacetime ever, which was H.8
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He criticized the standrad oil company
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The ship mysteriously blew up in Havanna Habor, they lost 260 soilders
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They anexed Hawaii and granted all the residents U.S. citizenship
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Promised that when U.S. overthrew spanish rule in cuba, the U.S would give the cubans independence
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The U.S. Senate ratifies the treaty with spain and gains the Phillippines
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Gave Peurto Rico a small degree of self governement
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Construction begins on the Panama Canal
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this increase duty on print paper
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Forced a peace treaty on Germany
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Prohibitated all drinking of alcohol
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he pecame the first man to fly a plane solo accross the atlantic ocean
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Legalized strikes
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this employed unskilled workers to do public works projects
