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Discovery of Gold in Pine Peaks
French Trapper Eustace Carriere lost his party and ended up lost in the mountains for weeks. In the span of that time, he found pure gold. -
Bessemer Process
It was the first industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel. -
Homestead Act
It provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. This was to help develop the American West and speed up economic growth. -
Morrill Land Grant Act
This act made it possible for U.S. States to create public colleges funded by the development or sale of federal land grants. -
Farmers Alliance Created
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 -
Transcontinental R/R Established
The purpose of this railroad was to join the eastern and western halves of the U.S. This is one of the most incredible American technological feats of the 19th century. -
Statue of Liberty Built
The Stature of Liberty was built for the purpose of being a monument to honor the independence of the United States and as a token of friendship with the French. -
Battle of Little Big Horn
Also called Cluster's Last Stand, this was a battle in Montana Territory between the U.S. Federal Troops and the Northern Plain Indians. -
Carlisle School Established
First government-run boarding school for Native American children. The goal is to accustom these children to a white American society. -
Thomas Edison Invents the Light BulB
Thomas Edison, an inventor who after many attempts, created the light bulb. -
Edison Lights up NYC
A great day for a great technological advancement, Thomas Edison flipped a switch and powered hundreds of homes with electricity. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the U.S. To be Specific, Chinese Laborers could no longer migrate to the U.S. for 10 years. -
Dawes Act
This act passed by President Grover Cleveland allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands. -
American Federation of Labor Founded
A.F. of L was a national federation of labor unions in the states that is still here today. -
Interstate Commerce Act Passed
This act addressed the issue of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how they could do business. -
Alfred T Mahan Writes Book on Sea Power
Alfred Mahan, a lecturer in Naval History and President of U.S. Naval War College published this book to show a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval value as a factor in the rise of the British Empire. -
Jacob Riis Published his Book of Photos
Jacob Riss, an American Newspaper reporter published a book titled, ¨How the Other Half Lives.¨ This was a book that exposed the slummy conditions of New York City. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act Passed
It was the First Federal Act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
This was the slaughter of 150-300 Lakota Indians by the U.S. Army troops at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. -
Fredrick Jackson Turner Writes Essay of Settling the West
Known as the Frontier Thesis or ¨The Significance of the Frontier in American History,¨ is an essay that basically says that the availability of unsettled land was the most essential value of determining national development. -
Pullman Strike
Widespread railroad strikes and boycotts disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest as a result of not being heard by their boss for better wages, conditions, and lower rent. -
Plessy v Ferguson
In the court case of Plessy V Ferguson, the court ruled that racial separation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution. This is known as ¨separate but equal." -
Holden V Hardy
Labor law case that resulted in which the Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional. -
Spanish American War Begins
This was the day that the U.S. declared war on Spain. The war ended with the Treaty of Paris. -
Hawaii is Annexed
In simple terms, Hawaii was taken over by the U.S. out of another country's territory. -
Philippines Islands are Annexed
The U.S. paid Spain 20 million dollars to annex the entirety of the Philippine archipelago -
Newlands Reclamation Act
This is a pioneering environmental law that defined the federal role in western water distribution. -
U-Boats Created
The Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft dockyard in Kiel completed the first fully functional German-built submarine Forelle. -
Panama Canal is Built
Canal that is used to transport goods quickly and cheaply. It is incredibly efficient. -
Sinclair’s the Jungle Written
Upton Sinclaire wrote The Jungle to expose the horrible working conditions in the meat-packing industry. -
Lochner v New York
The Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional. -
Hepburn Act
Bill that fortified the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission and strengthened federal regulations of railroads. -
Pure Food and Drug Act Passed
The act prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce. -
Muller v Oregon
Supreme Court Case in which the court considered whether a state could limit the number of hours a woman could work while also not limiting the hours of men. -
Founding of the NAACP
The Nation's largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization was born. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System known as "The Fed." It was created to maintain economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
Ford Motor Company's First Full Assembly Line Starts
The Ford Motor Company team decided to attempt to implement the moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process. -
17th Adm
Amendment 17 was added to the Constitution so that voter's votes will be directly cast for the U.S. Senators -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
A piece of legislation passed by the U.S. that defines unethical business, such as price fixing and monopolies, and prohibits many of these unfair business practices. -
Lusitania Sunk
A German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a moving British cruise Liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. -
US Enters WW1
The U.S. Senate voted in support to declare war on Germany. -
Beginning of the First World War
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand set off a chain of events that led to the war. -
Selective Service Act
The Selective Service Act authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. -
WW1 Ends
The eleventh hour of the eleventh month, the fighting stopped. -
18th Adm
The 18th Amendment was added to the Constitution for the purpose of prohibiting the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors..." -
19th Adm
The 19th Amendment preserves the right of any citizen to to vote. -
Immigration Quota Act
This act limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the U.S. through a national origins quota.(used visas) -
National Origins Act
Also called the Immigration Act, was a discriminatory and ethnocentric policy that reduced overall immigration into the U.S. -
Scopes Trial
Known as the Monkey Trial, a high school teacher was charged with violating the Butler's Act law, which prohibited the teaching of evolution.