US History 1865-1920

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  • U-boats created

    The first submarine built in Germany, the three-man Brandtaucher, sank to the bottom of Kiel Harbor on 1 February 1851 during a test dive.
  • Bessemer Process

    It made it possible to produce steel as ingots.
  • Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak

    Green Russell and Sam Bates found gold in Little Dry Creek which led to much more after this discovery of gold.
  • Homestead Act

    Any adult citizen, or intended citizen, could be provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land
  • Morrill Land grant act

    This made it possible for states to establish public colleges funded by the development or sale of associated federal land grants
  • Transcontinental r/r completed

    The first continuous railroad line across the United States.
  • Battle of little bighorn

    Marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War.
  • Farmers alliance created

    Improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy.
  • Thomas edison invents light bulb

    Thomas Edison invented the very first light blub.
  • Carlisle school established

    The site of an old military base, used during the colonial era and the Civil War. Soldiers also used it as an army training school from 1838 to 1871.
  • Chinese exclusion act

    Excluded Chinese laborers from the country under penalty of imprisonment and deportation.
  • Edison lights up NYC

    The year when he lit up Manhattan.
  • American federation of labor founded

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

    Addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business.
  • Dawes act

    The law 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.
  • Jacob Riis published his book of photos

    Featuring never-before-seen photos supplemented by blunt and unsettling descriptions, the treatise opened New Yorkers' eyes to the harsh realities of their city's slums.
  • Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power

    Argued that sea power was the key to military and economic expansion.
  • Sherman ant-trust act passed

    Authorized the federal government to institute proceedings against trusts in order to dissolve them.
  • Wounded knee massacre

    The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota.
  • Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west

    The frontier had been the most important factor in shaping a distinctly American character and in differentiating America from Europe.
  • Pullman strike

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

    Upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
  • Holden v hardy

    The US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
  • Hawaii is annexed

    Extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power.
  • Phillipines islands are annexed

    The Philippines, the country became an American colony.
  • Spanish American War begins

    Ended Spain's colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power.
  • Newlands Reclamation act

    Authorized the Secretary of the Interior to designate irrigation sites and to establish a reclamation fund from the sale of public lands to finance the projects.
  • 19 adm

    Helps maintain the law and order situation in the country.
  • Sinclair’s the Jungle written

    The novel shows that poverty is in control over the working class, but the working class still has a desperation for money.
  • Lochner v New York

    The Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional.
  • Pure Food and drug act passed

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

    The Court considered whether a state could limit the amount of hours a woman could work while not also limiting the hours of men.
  • Hepner act

    It must be taken as settled law that a certain sum, or a sum which can readily be reduced to a certainty.
  • Founding of the NAACP

    The nation's oldest civil rights organization it was needed because of the time back then and how African Americans were being treated.
  • 17th adm

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

    Allowed for the work to be taken to workers rather than the worker moving to and around the vehicle.
  • Federal Reserve act

    Legislation in the United States that created the Federal Reserve
  • Panama Canal is built

    A waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade.
  • Beginning of the first world war

    a young Serbian patriot shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Austria), in the city of Sarajevo.
  • Clayton Antitrust act

    Unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor.
  • Lusitania Sunk

    The German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania.
  • US enters WWI

    The US entered World War I because Germany embarked on a deadly gamble
  • Selective Service act

    Authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription
  • WWI ends

    A global conflict that took place between 1914 and 1918 was over.
  • 18th adm

    The manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours”
  • Immigration quota act

    An Act to limit the immigration of migrants into the United States.
  • National origins act

    A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.
  • Statue of Liberty built

    Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi used his sculpting skills to hammer and mold copper into the shape of Lady Liberty.
  • Scopes trial

    The trial publicized the fundamentalist–modernist controversy, which set Modernists, who said evolution could be consistent with religion, against fundamentalists, who said the word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all human knowledge.