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Freedom saving Collapse
When the bank was on the verge of collapse owing to overexpansion, misjudgment, abuse and fraud. -
Alex Graham Bell: Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell born in Scotland created the revolutionary invention that we all use today called the telephone. -
Great railroad strike
The countrys first major rail strike and witnessed the first general strike in the nations history, the strikes and the violence it created paralyzed the countrys commerce and led governors in 10 states to mobilize 60,000 militia members to reopen trail traffic. -
Thomas Edison: Lightbulb
In 1879 Thomas Edison created the lightbulb. His invention quickly caught on and at first it was for the rich but later on everyone had a lightbulb in their house. -
Tim crow laws
The Jim Crow Laws were statutes enacted by Southern states, beginning in the in the late 1870's and early 1880s, that legalized segregation between African Americans and whites. State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the southern united states. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. The Act was meant to curb the influx of Chinese immigrants to the United States particularly California; the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrant's ineligible for naturalization. -
Haymarket riot
The Haymarket riot was a violent confrontation between police and labor protesters in Chicago that dramatized the labor movement’s struggle for recognition. Radical unionists had called a mass meeting in Haymarket Square to protest police brutality in a strike action. A bomb was thrown into the crowd, killing seven policemen and injuring 60 others. Police and workers fired on each other. -
Statue of liberty
In 1865 frenchman Edouard de Laboulaye wanted to send a monumental gift from France to the people of the United States.France built the Statue Of Liberty and then disassembled it and shipped it to New York where it is today. The statue of liberty is seen as a symbol of freedom, inspiration and hope. The statue of liberty forms to remember the friendship between the French and U.S. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The interstate commerce act was passed by congress in 1887. It was a law used to regulate and address the problems of railroad monopolies. It was meant for setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business. -
Homestead Strike
The Homestead strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. The battle was an event in U.S. labor history. The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the Pittsburgh between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Carnegie Steel Company. The final result was defeat for the union of strikers and a setback for their efforts to unionize steelworkers. -
Pullman Strike
In U.S. history, widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in 1894. The federal government’s response to the unrest marked the first time that an injunction was used to break a strike. The Pullman Strike was two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression. -
Plessy vs. Fergison
U.S supreme court decision that upheld the constitutionally of a racial segregation under the ¨separate but equal act" doctrine. The case stemmed from an incident in 1892 from where an African American train passenger Home Plessy refused to sit in a car for black people.