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U-boats created
The boats Nordenfelt I and Nordenfelt II, built to a Nordenfelt design, followed in 1890. In 1903, the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft dockyard in Kiel completed the first fully functional German-built submarine, Forelle, which Krupp sold to Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in April 1904. -
Bessemer Process
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. -
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 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 and five years of continuous residence on that land. -
Morrill Land grant act
This act set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts. -
Transcontinental r/r completed
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad -
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. -
Farmers alliance created
The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished ca. -
Thomas Edison invents light bulb
Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light. It worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delayed the filament from melting. -
Carlisle school established
The flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. -
Chinese exclusion act
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. -
Statue of Liberty built
This monument honors the United States' centennial of independence and the friendship with France. -
American federation of labor founded
A national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO and was found in Columbus, Ohio by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor. -
Interstate commerce act passed
Making the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation. -
Dawes act
The law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals. -
Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power0
A revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire. -
Sherman ant-trust act passed
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
He attempted to alleviate the poor living conditions of poor people by exposing these conditions to the middle and upper classes so he published books. -
Wounded knee massacre
A massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States. -
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. -
Pullman 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 v Ferguson
This was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
Holden v hardy
A US labor law case in which the US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional. -
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. -
Hawaii is annexed
the Hawaiian Islands were annexed by this joint resolution. When the Hawaiian islands were formally annexed by the United States in 1898, the event marked the end of a lengthy internal struggle between native Hawaiians and non-native American businessmen for control of the Hawaiian government. -
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. Once again, MacArthur was thrust to the fore and distinguished himself in the field as he led American forces in quashing the rebellion. -
Newlands Reclamation act
The Reclamation Act of 1902 is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. The act at first covered only 13 of the western states as Texas had no federal lands. Texas was added later by a special act passed in 1906. -
Hepner act
This action of debt was brought by the United States to recover a penalty under the statute of Congress. -
Panama Canal is built
The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. -
Lochner v New York
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 and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). -
Muller V Oregon
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 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. Wells. -
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
Workers put V-shaped magnets on Model T flywheels to make one-half of the flywheel magneto. -
17th adm
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
The Federal Reserve Act was passed by the 63rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. -
Clayton Antitrust act
The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, is a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act seeks to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency. -
Beginning of the first world war
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. -
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 -
US enters WWI
the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. -
Selective Service act
Authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. -
WWI ends
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. -
18th adm
Prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption. -
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, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act, was a federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. -
Scopes trial
The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial.