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first german u-boats created.
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the process of making steel from pig iron.
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Gold was discovered on Pikes Peak in 1958
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the 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.
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Funded the establishment of public colleges by offering land grants to states to develop or sell.
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The transcontinental railroad was completed.
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought along the ridges, steep bluffs, and ravines of the Little Bighorn River, in south-central Montana on June 25-26, 1876.
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The Farmers alliance was created
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The first light bulb was created.
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Carlisle school opened
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the first significant law restricting immigration into the U.S. Provided an absolute ten-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the U.S.
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He lit up Manhatten and provided electricity for several homes.
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action to recover a penalty for importing an alien into the United States to perform labor,
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gaining the right to bargain collectively for wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions.
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granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”—to regulate railroad rates.
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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.
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Published his book of photos
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The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783
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The book was written
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first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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A massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
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Wrote the essay of settling the west.
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widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894.
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U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional.
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US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
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war begins
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Hawaii gets annexed
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United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago. The outraged Filipinos, led by Aguinaldo, prepared for war.
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introduced legislation into the United States Congress to provide federal help for irrigation projects.
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Panama Canal is built
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Sinclair's book is written.
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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
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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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Oregon imposed a law that prohibited businesses from making female employees work shifts of longer than 10 hours.
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NAACP was Founded
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provided for the direct popular election of U.S. senators
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establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.
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First full assembly line starts for ford.
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defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor.
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war starts.
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The Lusitania sunk
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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
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US entered WWI
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authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
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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.
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ending of WWI
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prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption.
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three percent of the foreign-born persons of that nationality who lived in the United States in 1910.
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The statute was officially built and put together in the U.S.
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The Scopes “monkey trial” was the moniker journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.