U.S. History

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  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act
    the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • Industrialization Begins to Boom

  • Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall

  • Telephone invented

  • Reconstruction Ends

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    Gilded Age

  • Light Bulb Invented

  • Third Wave of Immigration

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration.

  • Pendleton Act

  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act
    The Dawes Act of 1887, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.

  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
    Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates.

  • Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth

    Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
    The Gospel of Wealth", is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.

  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush
    The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899.

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Sherman Anti-Trust Act
    is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890 under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison.

  • Homestead Steel Labor Strike

  • Pullman Labor Strike

  • Assassination of President McKinley

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    Theodore Roosevelt

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    William Howard Taft

  • 16th Amendment

  • Federal Reserve Act

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    Woodrow Wilson

  • 17th Amendment

  • National Parks System

  • 18th Amendment

  • 19th Amendment

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    Roaring (1920s)