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U-boats created
The boats Nordenfelt I and Nordenfelt II, built to a Nordenfelt design, followed in 1890 -
Bessemer process
a steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort -
Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak
Green Russell and Sam Bates found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek that yielded about 20 troy ounces (622 grams) of gold -
Homestead Act
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. -
Morrill Land grant act
allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales of federally-owned land, often obtained from indigenous tribes through treaty, cession, or seizure. -
Transcontinental r/r completed
is recognized as one of our country's biggest achievements and one of mankind's biggest accomplishments. -
Statue of Liberty built
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. -
Battle of little bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand -
Farmers alliance created
The Farmers' Alliance was first organized in Texas in the mid-1870s and soon spread to other states and territories in the South and Midwest. -
Thomas edison invents light bulb
Edison had built his first high-resistance, incandescent electric light. -
Carlisle school established
Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, opened in 1879 as the first government-run boarding school for Native American children -
Chinese exclusion act
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States -
Edison lights up NYC
His company flipped the switch on his Pearl Street power station on September 4, 1882, providing hundreds of homes with electricity -
American federation of labor founded
was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO. -
Interstate commerce act passed
the Constitution's “Commerce Clause”—granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”—to regulating railroad rates. -
Dawes act
egulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. -
Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power
The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783 -
Sherman ant-trust act passed
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
A pioneer in the use of photography as an agent of social reform, Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870. -
Wounded knee massacre
was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States -
Pullman strike
widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894. -
Plessy v Ferguson
A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Holden v hardy
law case in which the US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional. -
Spanish American War begins
began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
Hawaii is annexed
extended U.S. territory into the Pacific -
Phillipines islands are annexed
the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago -
Newlands Reclamation act
The act set aside money from sales of semi-arid public lands for the construction and maintenance of irrigation projects -
Panama Canal is built
The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. -
Lochner v New York
was a 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 -
Sinclair’s the Jungle written
The Jungle is a fictional novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. -
Pure Food and drug act passed
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce -
Muller V Oregon
A case in which the Court found that limiting the number of work hours for women did not violate the right to contract in the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Founding of the NAACP
The NAACP was created in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans -
Hepner act
That act provided, among other things, that anyone receiving, concealing, or buying goods, wares, or merchandise, knowing them to have been illegally imported -
17th adm
of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators -
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
Henry Ford and his employees successfully began using this innovation at our Highland Park assembly plant. -
Federal Reserve act
It was implemented to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
Beginning of the first world war
It was fought between two coalitions, the Allies and the Central Powers. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. -
Clayton Antitrust act
This is the act of selling the same product to different buyers and charging different prices based on who is purchasing the goods. -
Lusitania Sunk
The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial 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
AN ACT to provide for the common defense by increasing the strength of the Armed Forces of the United States, including the reserve components thereof, and for other purposes. -
WWI ends
the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I -
18th adm date
to the Constitution prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors -
Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west
believed that the strength and the vitality of the America identity lay in its land and vast frontier. -
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
The Immigration Act of 1924 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 by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians -
Scopes trial
The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes,