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1619
1st black indentured servant in Jamestowns -
1791
First Bank of America was chartered -
1793
Invention of the Cotton Gin -
1816
Clay's American system aka 2nd Bank of America -
1828
Tariff of Abominations, led to the nullification crisis, tariff on imports -
1832
Jackson vetos bill to recharter bank of america -
1834
McCormick reaper, used to harvest grain and small crops, pulled by horse -
1861
start of the civil war -
1862
homestead act, 160 acres of land given to citizens in west if cultivated for 5 years -
1865
End of the civil war -
1867
Cattle boom, accelerates the settlement of the great plains -
1869
knights of labor formed -
1877
Munn v. Illinois case, set a max rate of grain storage -
1878
Land Allison act, partial coinage of silver -
1882
Chinese exclusion act -
1886
Wabash V. Illinois, weakened Munn v. illinois -
1886
American federation of labor formed -
1887
Interstate commerce commission, controlled railroads -
1890
sherman anti trust act -
1892
homestead strike -
1892
populist party organized -
1894
Pullman boycott -
1902
justice department invokes Sherman Anti Trust Act -
1903
Elkins Act of 1903 -
1906
The pure drug and food act -
1907
Immigration Act of 1907 -
1913
federal reserves act -
1914
Start of WW1 -
1914
Clayton Anti trust act -
1917
Immigration Avt of 1917 (literacy tests on immigrants) -
1924
Immigration act of 1924, set quotas on number of immigrants from specific countries -
1929
reformed act of 1924 to 150,000, established national origins system -
1930
Smoot-hawley tariff act, raised tariffs to help great depression -
1933
Agricultural Adjustment act, part of new deal, government paid farmers not to grow extra crops -
1935
Wagner Act, Social security Act -
1938
Fair Labor Standards Acts -
1939
Neutrality Act of 1939 -
1947
Taft- Hartley Act -
1952
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, changed quotas -
1961
consolidated Farm and rural development act -
1965
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act)