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A law where people could own land with a 5 year establishment
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A ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history.
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A time period when the U.S starts to blossom with its new creation and population.
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It was the main local political machine of the Democratic Party, and played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State politics and helping immigrants
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A telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.
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The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth
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Ended the remnants of Confederate secession and abolished slavery, making the newly freed slaves citizens with civil rights ostensibly
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An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated until it glows.
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brought over 20 million European immigrants to the United States
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Was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
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The Pendleton Act provided that Federal Government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that Government employees be selected through competitive exams
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An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations
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Is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry
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is an article written by Andrew Carnegie that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
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was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon
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was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices
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An industrial lockout and strike which culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents
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was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States that lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law.
