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Bessemer Process
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel -
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 -
Morrill Land grant act
stipulation that African Americans were to be included in the United States Land-Grant University Higher Education System without discrimination -
Homestead Act
provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land -
Transcontinental r/r completed
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad -
Farmers alliance created
Farmers' Alliance, an American agrarian movement during the 1870s and '80s that sought to improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy -
Statue of Liberty built
The Statue of Liberty built -
Battle of little bighorn
The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne. The death of Custer and his troops became a rallying point for the United States to increase their efforts to force native peoples onto reservation lands. -
the battle of little big horn
The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne. The death of Custer and his troops became a rallying point for the United States to increase their efforts to force native peoples onto reservation lands. -
Carlisle school established
as the first government-run boarding school for Native American -
Thomas edison invents light bulb
at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison had built his first high-resistance, incandescent electric light -
Edison lights up NYC
1882 was an important year for Edison in New York City, the year when he lit up Manhattan. His company flipped the switch on his Pearl Street power station on September 4, 1882, providing hundreds of homes with electricity -
Chinese exclusion act
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
to engage and inform his audience and exhort them to How the Other Half Lives -
American federation of labor founded
gaining the right to bargain collectively for wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions -
Interstate commerce act passed
addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business -
Dawes act
to assimilate Native Americans into white culture as quickly as possible -
Sherman ant-trust act passed
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices -
Wounded knee massacre
the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. -
Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west
Perhaps the most influential essay by an American historian, Frederick Jackson Turner's address to the American Historical Association on “The Significance of the Frontier in American History -
Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power
in response to the somewhat ironic position of the United States and its navy in the international system in the 1880s and 90s -
Pullman strike
widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894 -
Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine -
Holden v hardy
Hardy, 169 U.S. 366 (1898), is a U.S. labor law case in which the U.S. Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional -
Hawaii is annexed
extended U.S. territory into the Pacific -
Phillipines islands are annexed
the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago. The outraged Filipinos, led by Aguinaldo, prepared for war. -
Spanish American War begins
The Spanish–American War began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
Newlands Reclamation act
act that provided federal funds for the construction of dams, reservoirs, and canals in the West -
Lochner v New York
Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a New York State statute that prescribed maximum working hours for bakers violated the bakers' right to freedom of contract under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -
Sinclair’s the Jungle written
The Jungle is a fictional novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century -
Pure Food and drug act passed
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce -
Muller V Oregon
Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men. The posed question was whether women's liberty to negotiate a contract with an employer should be equal to a man's. -
Founding of the NAACP
The NAACP was created in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans -
Hepner act
A penalty may be recovered by a civil action, although such an action may be so far criminal in its nature that the defendant cannot be compelled to testify against himself therein in respect to any matter involving his being guilty of a criminal offense. -
17th adm
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
created the Federal Reserve System, known simply as "The Fed." It was implemented to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy -
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. His innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to one hour and 33 minutes. -
Panama Canal is built
Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts -
Clayton Antitrust act
prohibits price discrimination -
U-boats created
The first German submarine, the U-1, was built in 1905. During World War I Germany became the first country to employ submarines in war, -
Lusitania Sunk
The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland -
selective service act created
Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. -
Scopes trial
Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription -
US enters WWI
the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The House concurred two days later. The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917. -
Beginning of the first world war
World War I, often abbreviated as WWI or WWI, was a major global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918. It was fought between two coalitions, the Allies and the Central Powers. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia -
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. Although fighting continued elsewhere, the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I. -
18th adm
prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption -
19 adm
granted women the right to vote. -
19 adm
granted women the right to vote. -
Immigration quota act
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
National origins act
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota