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Homestead Act of 1862
The United States of American passed the Homestead Act. It provided that government land could be bought at the rate of $1.25 an acre or claimed free if worked on for five years. It encouraged a flood of people to move out West. Source:
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American History
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Civil Rights Bill
First major legislation in American history to be passed over a presidential veto. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens. Source: Davidson, James West. Experience History: Interpreting America's past. 8th ed. Vol. 2. Print. -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment was ratified on this date. The Fourteenth amendment defined an American citizen as anyone born in the United States. Source: Davidson, James West. Experience History: Interpreting America's past. 8th ed. Vol. 2. Print. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The case established the notion of Separate but equal. It legitimize the Jim Crow laws of the South. Source: Davidson, James West. Experience History: Interpreting America's past. 8th ed. Vol. 2. Print. -
Transcontinental Railroad
The golden spike also known as the last spike completed the Transcontinental railroad. This in thus, united the country and paved the way for industrial development. Source: Davidson, James West. Experience History: Interpreting America's past. 8th ed. Vol. 2. Print. -
15th Amendment
The amendment was ratified on this date. It prevented the federal and state government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on their race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Source: Davidson, James West. Experience History: Interpreting America's past. 8th ed. Vol. 2. Print. -
Bessemer Process
Carnegie traveled to England and was shown a new way to make steel called the Bessemer process. He took this process to the United States and ended up mass producing steel on a scale never seen before. This caused steel prices to plummet and being readily available. Steel is was built American railroads, Source: Davidson, James West. Experience History: Interpreting America's past. 8th ed. Vol. 2. Print. and cities. -
Compromise of 1877
Democrats accepted Hayes as president in exchange that troops would withdraw from the South. This in turn, gave Democrats control and ended reconstruction. Source: Davidson, James West. Experience History: Interpreting America's past. 8th ed. Vol. 2. Print. -
American Federation of Labor
Founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers, it became the most powerful union in the nation. They stressed gradual, concrete gains such as 8 hour work days, better wages and better working conditions. Source: Davidson, James West. Experience History: Interpreting America's past. 8th ed. Vol. 2. Print.
