US History 1865-1920

By Cheyennes0213

  • Bessemer Process

    This allowed steel to be produced without fuel.

  • Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak

    They discovered gold in Pikes Peak.

  • Homestead Act

    This act said that any U.S. adult citizen who has never borne arms against the U.S Government could own land.

  • Transcontinental r/r completed

    This made the 3,000-mile journey through the United States cut from months to finished in a week.

  • Statue of Liberty built

    The French gave us the Statue of Liberty as a gift and to commemorate the alliance of us together during the American Revolution.

  • Battle of little bighorn

    This was a momentary victory for Lakota and Cheyenne.

  • Thomas edison invents light bulb

    Thomas Edison was a scientist who invented light bulbs by making electrical pass through the metal filament wire and heating it until it glows.

  • Carlisle school established

    This was a mission to "kill the Indian" in order to "save the Man"

  • Chinese exclusion act

    This banned the Chinese laborers from immigrating to the U.S. for 10 years.

  • Edison lights up NYC

    He lit up New York and provided many homes there with electricity.

  • American federation of labor founded

    Gaining the right to bargain collectively for wages, working conditions, and more.

  • Interstate commerce act passed

    This made the railroads the first industry subject to a federal regulation.

  • Dawes act

    This was to incorporate the Native Americans into white culture as quickly as possible.

  • Jacob Riis published his book of photos

    To expose how real it was for the squalid living conditions and working conditions they were faced.

  • Sherman ant-trust act passed

    This was the first federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.

  • Morrill Land grant act

    This said that African Americans were allowed to be welcomed into the United States Land-Grant University Higher Education System without being discriminated.

  • Wounded knee massacre

    This marked the definitive end of Indian resistance to the encroachments of the whites.

  • Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west

    It was linked to America's identity.

  • Pullman strike

    This severely disrupted the rail traffic in the Midwest of the U.S.

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    This allowed for equal but seperate accommodations for the white and colored races.

  • Holden v hardy

    This made a working time limit for the miners and smelters.

  • Newlands Reclamation act

    this authorized the secretary of the interior to designate irrigation sites.

  • Founding of the NAACP

    abolition of segregation.