1865-WW1 Jeremy Brodeur

By JMoney76

  • Rockefeller starts Standart oil. Economic

    Rockefeller and his brother started Standart Oil in Ohio

  • Grangers Laws Economic

  • Susan B anthony is fined for trying to vote. Social

    She is fined 100$ for trying to exercise her right to be an american.

  • Pinckney Benton becomes the first black governor in Louisiana POLITICAL

  • First department store in America Other

    •John Wanamaker opens nation’s first department store in Philadelphia

  • Graham bell invents the telephone OTHER

  • Major League Baseball is founded SPORT/ENTERNTAINMENT

    From Cincinnati,OH

  • Knights of Labor were founded SOCIAL

    Group of skilled laborers, also viewed as Anarchists.

  • Greenback-Labor Party elects 15 Congressmen. Political

  • Thomas Edison Invents the electric light bulb Other

  • Chinese Exclusion Act SOCIAL

    Prohibition of all chinese immigration to the US

  • Mississippi State College for Women is founded Social

  • American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded SOCIAL

  • Haymarket square riot. SOCIAL

    A protest that involved a bombing. the Knights of Labors were the ones blamed for the attack. One police officer died.

  • Interstate Commerce Act Economic

  • The Stanley Cup is commisioned. SPORTS/ENTERTAINEMENT

    Lord Stanley, general governor of Canada created a trophy that he awarded to the best amateur hockey team in Canada.

  • Homestead lockout Social

    people in carnegie's steel mills went on strike.

  • Chicago world fair ECONOMIC

    Chicago fair. where ragtime was introduced to the large public.

  • Supreme court deems income tax Unconstitutional Economic

  • Plessy v Ferguson POLITICAL

    Court case that made racism legal

  • National Association of Colored Women is founded Social

  • Spanish American war Political

  • Monopolies Economic

    •America’s one hundred largest companies control one-third of national productive capacity

  • Lacey Act of 1900 Political

    Prohibits illegal trade of wildlife products obtained illegally.

  • Carnegie sells US Steel to JP Morgan Economic

    Carnegie becomes the richest man in the world after selling US steel for 480 million dollars.

  • Boston red sox win the first world series SPORTS/ENTERNTAIMENT

    won in a best of 9 series, the red sox become the first MLB champions.

  • Subway running the lenght of Manhattan completed Other

  • Pure food and drug act Economic

    Act that forces people to not sell pure foods and drugs. make people of america healthier.

  • Food and Drug administration established Political

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire Political

    Lead to many reform in work place safety.

  • 55 Story building completed in newyork Other

  • the 17th amendment takes effect Political

    provided for popular election of US senators.