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U-boats created
The first submarine built in Germany by 2 mean named Schweffel and Howaldt who constructed it in Kiel, the three-man Brandtaucher, sank to the bottom of Kiel Harbor on Febuary 1 1851 during a test dive. -
Bessemer Process
The modern process is named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856. -
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, 662 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. -
Morrill Land grant act
This act made it possible for states to establish public colleges funded by the development or sale of associated federal land grants. -
Transcontinental r/r completed
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, is recognized as one of our country's biggest achievements and one of mankind's biggest accomplishments. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory. -
Farmers alliance created
The National Farmers' Alliance, known as the Northern Alliance, was established by a group of members of the Grange movement from New York state. -
Carlisle School Established
The United States founded the Carlisle school in 1879 at the site of an old military base, used during the colonial era and the Civil War. -
Thomas Edison Invents Light Bulb
Thomas Edison received the historic patent embodying the principles of his incandescent lamp that paved the way for the universal domestic use of electric light. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Whe the Chinese Exclusion Act was approved, it was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
Edison lights up NYC
The first electrical lighting in New York City signaled a new era of urban illumination -
American Federation of Labor Founded
Convinced that no accommodation with the leadership of the Knights of Labor was possible, the heads of the five labor organizations which called conference and issued a new call for a convention. -
Interstate Commerce Act Passed
The Senate and House passed the Interstate Commerce Act, which applied the Constitution's Commerce Clause granting Congress the power to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations. -
Dawes Act
Congress passed the Dawes Act, named for its author, Senator Henry Dawes of Massachusetts. -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
Riis wrote a magazine article based on his lectures in Scribner magazine, which was a resounding success. -
Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power
In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published. -
Sherman Ant-Trust Act Passed
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Tragedy occurred as US Army troops fired upon Native Americans at Wounded Knee creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation, leaving an estimated 200 people dead. -
Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of Settling The West
The Frontier Thesis or Turner's Thesis is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893. -
Pullman Strike
In U.S. history, widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States . -
Plessy vs Ferguson
U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional. The Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial segregation over the next half-century. -
Holden v Hardy
These were writs of error to review two judgments of the supreme court of the state of Utah denying applications of the plaintiff in error, Holden, for his discharge upon two writs of habeas corpus. -
Spanish American War begins
On April 25, 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor -
Hawaii is Annexed
House Joint Resolution 259, 55th Congress, 2nd session, known as the Newlands Resolution, passed Congress and was signed into law by President McKinley -
Phillipines islands are annexed
In Paris on December 10, 1898, the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago. -
Newlands Reclamation Act
Congress passed the Reclamation Act and the act required that water users repay construction costs from which they received benefits. -
Hepner act
Heppner residents were sitting down to Sunday dinner when the sky started raning. -
Panama Canal is built
President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long term United States goal. -
Lochner v New York
The Supreme Court issued a 5 to 4 decision in favor of Lochner that struck down the New York Bakeshop Act's limits on bakers working hours as unconstitutional. -
Pure Food and Drug Act Passed
Since 1879, nearly 100 bills had been introduced in Congress to regulate food and drugs. On June 30 1906 President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act. -
Sinclair’s the Jungle written
The Jungle was first published in 1905 as a serial in The Appeal to Reason and then as a book in 1906. Sales rocketed. It was an international best seller, published in 17 languages. -
Muller V Oregon
Oregon imposed a law that prohibited businesses from making female employees work shifts of longer than 10 hours. The owner of a laundry business, Curt Muller, was fined $10 when he violated the law. -
Founding of The NAACP
The nation's largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization was born. -
17th adm
Passed by Congress on May 13, 1912, and ratified on April 8, 1913, the 17th Amendment modified Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators -
Federal Reserve act
It took many months and nearly straight party line voting, but on December 23, 1913, the Senate passed and President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act. -
Beginning of the first world war
The spark that set off World War I came on June 28, 1914, when a young Serbian patriot shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
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
On May 7, 1915, the German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. -
US enters WWI
On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The House concurred two days later. -
Selective Service act
On May 18, 1917, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. -
WWI ends
On Nov. 11, 1918, after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. -
18th adm
The 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors and was ratified by the states on January 16, 1919. -
19 adm
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. -
National origins act
The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act. -
Immigration quota act
The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act was a federal law that prevented immigrations from Asia. -
Statue of Liberty Built
It was disassembled and shipped to New York City and the statue was reassembled on Liberty Island, although the torch has been redesigned or restored several times since its installation. -
Scopes trial
The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial.