us history 1865-1920

  • Bessemer Process

    the bessemer process is a steel making machine
  • discovery of gold in pikes peak

    the discovery of gold in pikes peak was Green Russell and Sam Bates and they found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek
  • Morrill Land grant act

    the Morrill Land grant act was where the goverment would give each state 30,000 acres of land
  • Homestead Act

    Homeowners in Arkansas may receive a homestead property tax credit of up to $375 per year
  • Transcontinental r/r completed

    the railroad was completed
  • Statue of Liberty built

    obvious
  • Battle of little bighorn

    he death of Custer and his troops became a rallying point for the United States to increase their efforts to force native peoples onto reservation lands.
  • Farmers alliance created

    Farmers set up cooperatively owned retail stores and marketing organizations.
  • Thomas edison invents light bulb

    he invented the first ever lightbulb
  • Carlisle school established

    a school was formed
  • Chinese exclusion act

    restricted immigration
  • Edison lights up NYC

    he used his lightbulbs to light up the city
  • American federation of labor founded

    craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor.
  • Interstate commerce act passed

    to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States
  • Dawes act

    authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals.
  • Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west

    The Significance of the Frontier in American History
  • Jacob Riis published his book of photos

    he published a book
  • Sherman ant-trust act passed

    outlawed monopolistic business practices.
  • Wounded knee massacre

    The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States
  • Pullman strike

    widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    The ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and blacks
  • Holden v hardy

    US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters
  • Newlands Reclamation act

    The Reclamation Act of 1902 is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.
  • Muller V Oregon

    whether a state could limit the amount of hours a woman could work while not also limiting the hours of men.
  • Panama Canal is built

    American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
  • Hepner act

    alien immigration act
  • Founding of the NAACP

    The NAACP was established in February 1909 in New York City by an interracial group of activists, partially in response to the 1908 Springfield race riot in Illinois