US History 1865-1920

By cs44345
  • Bessemer Process

    Henry Bessemer created a steel-making process that was used for manufacturing steel inexpensively
  • Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak

    Gold was founded by Sam Bates & Green Russel in present day Denver.
  • Homestead Act

    Allowed anyone over the age of 21 yrs to acquire 160 acres of federal land if they were a citizen or declared their intent to become one.
  • Morrill Land grant act

    Made it possible for states to establish public colleges funded by development or sale of associated federal land grants
  • Transcontinental RR Completion

    The first continuous railroad line across the united states. It traveled from the Iowa-Nebraska border to California.
  • Edison's Light bulb Invention

    In his laboratory, Edison creates the first high resistance, incandescent electric light in the form of a light bulb.
  • Chinese exclusion act

    A treaty made with the Chinese government that banned Chinese immigrants from entering america. and called for the deportation of anyone who DID enter after 1880
  • Edison lights up NYC

    Edison's Electric Illuminating Company flips the switch on their first power station, giving light & electricity to all of Manhattan
  • Statue of Liberty built

    French political, intellectual, and anti slavery activist Edouard Leboulaye proposed a statue be built representing liberty for the United States.
  • American federation of labor founded

    Samuel Gompers founds the AFL whilst eager to give mutual support and focused on gaining the rights to bargain collectively for wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions
  • Interstate commerce act passed

    an act passed by congress, it helped make railroads the first industrial subject to federal regulation.
  • Dawes act

    This act authorized the president to break up reservation land into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals. even with the land held in common by members of a tribe.
  • Sherman ant-trust act passed

    an act that had the first measure taken by congress that outlawed monopolistic practices & businesses.
  • Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west

    Historian Turner believed that the strength and vitality of the America identity lay in its land and vast frontier.
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    A ruling in the supreme court case upheld Louisiana state law that allowed for equal but separate accommodations for white and colored races.