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U-boats created
first submarine built in Germany. -
Bessemer Process
a steel making process -
Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak
20 troy ounces (622 grams) of gold, the first significant gold discovery in the Rocky Mountain region. -
Homestead Act
allows a maximum exemption amount of $2,500 of one's equality with a maximum of one acre (1/4 acre minimum) for urban properties and 160 acres if rural. -
Morrill Land grant act
committed the federal government to grant each state. -
Transcontinental r/r completed
is recognized as one of our country's biggest accomplishments and one of mankind's biggest accomplishments. -
Battle of little bighorn
battle of the Greasy Grass -
Farmers alliance created
first originated in Texas in the mid 70's Farmers set up cooperatively owned retail stores and marketing organizations -
Thomas edison invents light bulb
Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light. -
Carlisle school established
the first government run boarding school for Native American children -
Chinese exclusion act
the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
Edison lights up NYC
Edison lit up New York City, and provided hundreds of homes with electricity. -
Statue of Liberty built
it was built to show liberty for the United States. -
American federation of labor founded
National federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today. -
Interstate commerce act passed
Both the Senate and House passed the interstate Commerce Act. -
Dawes act
An act to provide for the Allotment of lands in Serveralty to Indians -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
photos of " how the other side lives". -
Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power
a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire. -
Sherman ant-trust act passed
the first federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Wounded knee massacre
was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States -
Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west
The significance of the Frontier in America History, -
Pullman strike
two interrelated strikes shaped national labor policy -
Plessy v Ferguson
upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separated but equal" doctrine. -
Holden v hardy
a US labor law case in which the US supreme court held a limitation -
Spanish American War begins
an 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial -
Hawaii is annexed
extended U.S. territory into the Pacific -
Phillipines islands are annexed
a country in Asia made up of many islands -
Newlands Reclamation act
United States federal law that funded irrigation -
Panama Canal is built
an artificial 82 km waterway -
Lochner v New York
the Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional. -
Sinclair’s the Jungle written
a novel written by a American journalist and novelist -
Pure Food and drug act passed
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce -
Muller V Oregon
limiting the number of work hours for women did not violate the right to contract in the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Founding of the NAACP
civil right organization in the United States -
17th adm
allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. -
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
Highland Park assembly plant -
Federal Reserve act
passed by the 63rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson -
Beginning of the first world war
World war l -
Clayton Antitrust act
defines unethical business practices -
Lusitania Sunk
German Navy U-boat during the First World War -
US enters WWI
the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. -
Selective Service act
authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. -
WWI ends
after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. -
18th adm
prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors -
19 adm
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. -
Immigration quota act
limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
National origins act
A law that severely restricted immigration -
Scopes trial
"monkey trail" was the moniker journalist