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Bessemer Process
the first inexpensive industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel. -
Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak
Little Dry Creek that yielded about 20 troy ounces (622 grams) of gold -
Homestead Act
provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. -
Morrill Land grant act
set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.” -
Transcontinental r/r completed
the first continuous railroad line across the United States. -
Battle of little bighorn
a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne -
Farmers alliance created
cooperatively owned retail stores and marketing organizations. -
Thomas Edison invents light bulb
high resistance, incandescent electric light -
Carlisle school established
was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. -
Chinese exclusion act
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 and providing hundreds of homes with electricity -
Statue of Liberty built
was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States and is recognized as a universal symbol of freedom and democracy. -
American federation of labor founded
winning economic benefits for its members through collective bargaining -
Interstate commerce act passed
a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices -
Dawes act
regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. -
Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power
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 measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
to alleviate the poor living conditions of poor people by exposing these conditions to the middle and upper classes. -
Wounded knee massacre
nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army -
Fredrick Jackson Turner writes an essay of settling the west
the farmer's advance -
Pullman strike
two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression. -
Plessy v Ferguson
thirteenth and 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
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
the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. -
Phillipines islands are annexed
the people of the Philippines sought to resist annexation into the United States and establish a country of their own -
Newlands Reclamation act
federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. -
Newlands Reclamation act
federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West -
Panama Canal is built
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
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 -
Muller V Oregon
was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court -
Sinclair’s the Jungle written
to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry -
Pure Food and drug act passed
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce -
Hepner act
A law that strengthened the rate-making power of the Interstate Commerce Commission -
Founding of the NAACP
an interracial group of activists -
17th amendment
the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. -
Federal Reserve act
It was implemented to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts -
U-boats created
returned to British waters with the obligation of applying prize rules. -
Beginning of the first world war
was a major global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918 -
Clayton Antitrust act
prohibits price discrimination -
Lusitania Sunk
was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland -
Selective Service act
authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. -
US enters WWI
voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany -
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 amendment
illegalized the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol -
19 amendment
granted women the right to vote. -
Immigration quota act
limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota -
National origins act
was a federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. -
Scopes trial
was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925