US History 1865-1920

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  • Bessemer Process

    It was the first method discovered in processing steel.
  • Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak

    Gold was discovered in Pikes Peak
  • Homestead Act

    accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and five years of continuous residence on that land.
  • Morrill Land grant act

    committed the federal government to grant each state 30,000 acres of public land
  • Transcontinental r/r completed

    A railroad that went from coast to coast.
  • Statue of Liberty built

    The Statue of Liberty was built.
  • Battle of little bighorn

    The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne.
  • Farmers alliance created

    Farmers set up cooperatively owned retail stores and marketing organizations.
  • Carlisle school established

    Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, opened in 1879 as the first government-run boarding school for Native American children.
  • Thomas Edison invents light bulb

    Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb.
  • Chinese exclusion act

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

    He provided dozens of homes in Manhatten with electricity.
  • American federation of labor founded

    The American Federation of Labor was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO.
  • American federation of labor founded

    Led by Samuel Gompers, an English immigrant who had organized cigar makers, the craft unions established the American Federation of Labor.
  • Interstate commerce act passed

    granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”—to regulating railroad rates.
  • Dawes act

    An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations
  • Sherman ant-trust act passed

    The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
  • Jacob Riis published his book of photos

    His celebrated work documenting the living conditions of the poor, which was published to widespread acclaim in 1890.
  • Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power

    Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783
  • Wounded knee massacre

    A gun was discharged and soldiers opened fire. When the shooting stopped, hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children were dead.
  • Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west

    This essay proclaimed that the once vast American frontier was closed.
  • Pullman strike

    widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894.
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
  • Holden v hardy

    Holden v. Hardy, 169 U.S. 366, is a US labor law case in which the US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
  • Spanish American War begins

    Spanish American War begins in 1898
  • Hawaii is annexed

    Hawaiian Islands were annexed by this joint resolution.
  • Phillipines islands are annexed

    the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago. The outraged Filipinos, led by Aguinaldo, prepared for war.
  • 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
  • Hepner act

    A suit brought by the United States to recover the penalty prescribed by §§ 4 and 5 of the Alien Immigration Act
  • Panama Canal is built

    Panama Canal was built
  • Lochner v New York

    was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a New York State statute that prescribed maximum working hours for bakers violated the bakers' right to freedom of contract under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
  • Sinclair’s the Jungle written

    The Jungle is a fictional novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century.
  • Pure Food and drug act passed

    prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
  • Muller V Oregon

    Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court.
  • Founding of the NAACP

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States
  • 17th adm

    allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
  • Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts

    The Ford Motor Company team decided to try to implement the moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process. After much trial and error, in 1913 Henry Ford and his employees successfully began using this innovation at our Highland Park assembly plant.
  • Federal Reserve act

    Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System,
  • U-boats created

    Early U-boats (1850–1914)
  • Beginning of the first world war

    World War I, often abbreviated as WWI or WW1, was a major global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918.
  • Clayton Antitrust act

    The Clayton Act prohibits price discrimination.
  • Lusitania Sunk

    The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War
  • US enters WWI

    On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The House concurred two days later. The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917.
  • Selective Service act

    authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
  • WWI ends

    On Nov. 11, 1918, after more than four years of horrific fighting WWII ends.
  • 18th adm

    prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
  • 19th amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
  • Immigration quota act

    The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
  • National origins act

    The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
  • Scopes trial

    John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925