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The Sand Creek Massacre was significant because Indians were massacred so the US could take territory in the Great Plains of Colorado.
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The Interstate Commerce Act 1866 was significant because it made sure that railroads charged fair rates to all customers, this was a step in the right direction for equality between races.
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The Purchase of Alaska was significant because it was an important step for the US to rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region.
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The 2nd Industrial Revolution was significant because it influenced the Gilded Age and was the period where America was becoming more industrial-using steel and railroads, and the economy was rising.
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The Panic of 1873 was significant because it was the first global depression brought about by industrial capitalism.
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The WCTU was significant because it was the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."
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The RR strike 1877 was significant because it energized the labor movement.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was significant because it was the first federal law and only major federal legislation to explicitly suspend immigration for a specific nationality.
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The Pendleton Act 1881 was significant because it got rid of the "spoils system".
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The Grange Movement was significant because it helped advance methods of agriculture, as well as to promote the social and economic needs of farmers in the United States.
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The Interstate Commerce Act was significant because it caused railroads to be the first industrial subject to federal regulation.
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The Dawes Act 1887 was significant because it sold Indian territory in exchange for US citizenship.
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The Ghost Dance Movement was significant because it was believed to have contributed to Lakota resistance to assimilation under the Dawes Act.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 protected trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies. This was significant because it was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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The NAWSA was significant because it played an important role in passing the 19th Amendment.
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The Forest Reserve Act 1891 was significant because it allowed the president to set aside land as national forests and this preserved water and other resources for future generations.
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The Panic of 1893 was significant because it was a serious economic depression and it effected the entire economy and caused political disruption.
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The Pullman Strike was significant because it a turning point for US labor law.
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The Haymarket Bombing was significant because after the bombing it increased anti-labour and anti-immigrant sentiment and suspicion of the international anarchist movement, throughout the country.
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US Steel was significant because it was a company that mass produced steel for America and the use of steel was turning the US in the direction of industrialization and mass production.
