1865-1920 Timeline

  • Bessmer process

    it was a mechine that allowed to be produce without fuel
  • The Gold in the Pikes Peak

    Sam Bates and Green Russell found gold in Pikes Peak
  • the morrill land grant act

    it was a act that let people taje land from other people
  • the homestead act

    allow people get land to live on
  • Transcontinental r/r completed

    it was the beginning and building of trains
  • Farmers alliance created

    an alliance was made with farmers
  • Battle of little bighorn

    it was a battle over the fact that the government agree to help and then never did
  • Statue of Liberty built

    well it was when the statue of liverty was built
  • Carlisle school established

    it was the first government school for native america
  • Thomas edison invents light bulb

    edison made the light bulb in his laboratory
  • Chinese exclusion act

    it made it where immergrants weren't allowed to come to the U.S
  • Edison lights up NYC

    it was the first time a city was lit up with lights
  • American federation of labor founded

    gave people the right to bargen for a better pay,work hours,safer,conditions
  • Dawes act

    it allowed the president to take land
  • Interstate commerce act passed

    gave the power to congress to commerc with foreign nations
  • Jacob Riis published his book of photos

    he took photos to show how hard it was and still is for emmergrants
  • Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power

    it was a book about how we could use the sea for our power
  • Sherman ant-trust act passed

    the first law to outlaw the right to be monoplistic
  • Wounded knee massacre

    its a war that was fought because of a reaction to a reigion movement
  • Pullman strike

    it was a railroad strike
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    it was about segragetion
  • Holden v hardy

    it was a case over the child working laws
  • Spanish American War begins

    its when the U.S had a marin explode and then got inevloved with the cuba war
  • Hawaii is annexed

    this is when hawaii became apart of the U.S
  • Phillipines islands are annexed

    they had war
  • Newlands Reclamation act

    it was a aid for land
  • Panama Canal is built

    it was made on may 4th 1904
  • Sinclair’s the Jungle written

    its a book
  • Lochner v New York

    how many work hours you allowed to have is was its all about
  • Pure Food and drug act passed

    stops the sale of misbranded food or drug
  • Hepner act

    it recoverd petal of 1,000
  • Muller V Oregon

    it was a law that made women not allowed to work 10 hours or more
  • Founding of the NAACP

    it is a civil rights national associaltion
  • 17th adm

    it allowed voters to vote direct votes for the U.S Senators
  • 17th adm

    it allowed voters to vote directr231
  • Clayton Antitrust act

    changes to the law
  • Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts

    they made one of the first few cars
  • Federal Reserve act

    it was when the legislaltion made the federal reserve system
  • U-boats created

    one of the first U boats were made in 1914
  • Beginning of the first world war

    the beginning of the great war
  • Lusitania Sunk

    it was a boat that sank in 1915
    1,195 people died
  • US enters WWI

    we the U.S enter the war with our ally the Austrialia on December 7th 1917
  • Selective Service act

    it was a act that tried to make the U.S. air force stronger
  • WWI ends

    November 11th of 1918 was the end of the great war
  • Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west

    he wrote a essay about how important the settlements are for America
  • 19 adm

    it was the amendenment that gave all women the right for voting
  • 18th adm

    the adm prohibited liquours
  • Immigration quota act

    it limmited the amount of immigrants allowed to go to America
  • National origins act

    it limmited how many immagrants that are allowed to go to America from eastern and southern Europe
  • Scopes trial

    it was about a case about someone going against the butler act