us history 1865-1920 By stephanie268 Jan 1, 1856 bessemer process Jan 1, 1858 the discovery of gold in pikes peak May 20, 1862 Homestead Act Jul 2, 1862 Morrill Land grant act May 10, 1869 Transcontinental r/r completed Jun 25, 1876 Battle of little bighorn Mar 21, 1877 Farmers alliance created Jan 27, 1880 Thomas edison invents light bulb May 6, 1882 Chinese exclusion act Sep 4, 1882 Edison lights up NYC Oct 28, 1886 Statue of Liberty built Dec 8, 1886 American federation of labor founded Feb 4, 1887 Interstate commerce act passed Feb 8, 1887 Dawes act Jan 1, 1890 Jacob Riis published his book of photos Jan 1, 1890 Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power Jul 2, 1890 Sherman ant-trust act passed Dec 29, 1890 Wounded knee massacre Jan 1, 1893 Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west May 11, 1893 Pullman strike May 18, 1896 Plessy v Ferguson Jan 1, 1897 Carlisle school established Feb 28, 1898 Holden v hardy Apr 25, 1898 Spanish American War begins Jul 7, 1898 Hawaii is annexed Dec 10, 1898 philippines islands annexed Jun 17, 1902 Newlands Reclamation act May 4, 1904 Panama Canal is built Apr 17, 1905 Lochner v New York Nov 5, 1905 sinclair's the jungle was written Jun 30, 1906 Pure Food and drug act passed Jan 15, 1908 Muller V Oregon Feb 12, 1909 Founding of the NAACP May 13, 1912 17th adm Dec 1, 1913 ford motors first full assembly Dec 23, 1913 federal reserved act Jul 28, 1914 beginning of the first world war Oct 8, 1914 clayton antitrust act May 7, 1915 lusitania sunk Apr 4, 1917 us enters ww1 May 18, 1917 selective service act Nov 11, 1918 ww1 ended Jan 16, 1919 18th adm Jun 4, 1919 19th adm May 26, 1924 immigration quota act/national origins act Jul 21, 1925 scopes trial