important events of 1865-1920

  • bessemere process

    made it possible to produce steel as ingots
  • pikes peak

    colorado gold rush
  • homestead act

    gave citizens up to 160 acres of land provided they live on it, improve it , and pay a small registration fee
  • moral land grant act

    set aside federal lands to create colleges to "benefit the agricultural and the mechanical arts"
  • first light bulb

    first light bulb was made by a man named Thomas Edison
  • battle of little bighorn

    fought along the ridges, steep bluffs , and ravines of the little bighorn river
  • farmers alliance

    an organized agrarian economic movement
  • carlisle school

    a school to "kill the indian " and "save the man"
  • Chinese exclusion act

    first law restricting immigration into the United States
  • Edison lights up NYC

    first electrical lighting in New York City signaled a new era of urban illumination
  • commerce act

    addressed the issue of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines could do business
  • dawes act

    the treatment of Native Americans of individuals rather than as members of tribes
  • Jacob riis published book of photos

    the photos were him trying to alleviate the poor living conditions of poor people by exposing the conditions to the middle and upper class
  • sherman ant trust act

    first federal act to outlaw monopolistic business practices
  • wounded knee massacre

    the slaughter of 150-300 Lakota Indians by US troops
  • Fredrick Jackson Turner

    wrote an essay that celebrated pioneers for the spirit of individualism that spurred immigration westward.
  • pullman strike

    a strike because of layoffs , pay cuts , and firings
  • plessy v ferguson

    us supreme court made a serious court decision regarding racial segregation in rail cars
  • holden versus harvey

    it held a limitation on working time for the miners and smelters as constitutional
  • newlands reclamation act

    pioneering environmental law that defined the federal role in western water distribution
  • panama canal

    48 mile long international waterway
  • lochner v new york

    the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York state law setting 10 hours of labor a day as the legal maximum in the baking trade.
  • pure food and drug act

    act prohibiting the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration
  • muller v oregon

    whether or not you could limit the work hours for a woman and not a man
  • naacp founding

    worlds largest and most widely recognized civil rights movement
  • hepner act

    an action of debt under the statue of congress
  • federal reserve act

    created the federal reserve system
  • selective service act

    authorized the federal government to temporarily expand the military through conscription
  • statue of liberty

    The entire statue was created and assembled in paris between 1881-84
  • scopes trial

    an american legal case
  • transcontinental railroad

    recognized as one of our countries biggest achievements
  • american federation of labor

    fought for higher wages , better work conditions , collective bargaining rights , and shorter work days