-
U-boats created
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. -
Bessemer Process
The bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel. -
Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak
The discovery of gold in pikes peak was the first significant gold discovery in the rocky mountain region. -
Homestead Act
The homestead acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain. -
Morrill Land grant act
The morrill land grant acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states -
Transcontinental Railroad
The transcontinental railroad was contiguous railroad trackage, that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different oceans or continental borders. -
Statue of Liberty built
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States -
Battle of little bighorn
The Battle of little bighorn was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. -
Farmers alliance created
Farmers alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers. -
Thomas edison invents light bulb
Thomas Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light. -
Carlisle school established
Carlisle school was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States. -
Chinese exclusion act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. -
Edison lights up NYC
Thomas Edison's company flipped the switch on his Pearl Street power station, providing hundreds of homes with electricity. -
American federation of labor founded
The american federation of labor was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO. -
Dawes act
The dawes act regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. -
Interstate commerce act passed
The interstate commerce act is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
His book, How the Other Half Lives, stimulated the first significant New York legislation to curb poor conditions in tenement housing. -
Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power
This was 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 is a United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce. -
Wounded knee massacre
The Wounded knee massacre was, the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. -
Pullman strike
The Pullman strike was two interrelated strikes that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression. -
Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy v Ferguson 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. -
Holden v hardy
Holden v hardy is a US labor law case in which the US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional. -
Hawaii is annexed
America's annexation of Hawaii extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. -
Spanish American War begins
The Spanish American War began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba. -
Phillipines islands are annexed
In Paris, the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago. -
Newlands Reclamation act
The Newlands Reclamation act is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. -
Sinclair’s the Jungle written
This was written to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. -
Lochner v New York
Lochner v New York 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. -
Pure Food and drug act passed
Pure Food and drug act 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. -
Muller V Oregon
Muller V Oregon was was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court, women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men. -
Founding of the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed in New York City by white and Black activists, partially in response to the ongoing violence against Black Americans around the country. -
Hepner act
The Hepner act was decided on April 5th, 1909. -
17th adm
The 17th adm allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. -
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. -
Federal Reserve act
The Federal Reserve act created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. -
Clayton Antitrust act
The Clayton Antitrust act is a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime. -
US enters WWI
WWI started after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. -
Beginning of the first world war
This started after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. -
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. -
Lusitania Sunk
The Lusitania Sunk was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War. -
Selective Service act
The Selective Service act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I 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. -
18th adm
The 18th adm prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors. -
19 adm
The 19 adm granted women the right to vote. -
Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west
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” defined for many Americans the relationship between the frontier and American culture. -
Immigration quota act
The Immigration quota act was formulated mainly in response to the large influx of Southern and Eastern Europeans and restricted their immigration to the United States. -
National origins act
The 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 was an American legal case in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act.