us history 1865-1920

  • bessemer process

  • the discovery of gold in pikes peak

  • Homestead Act

  • Morrill Land grant act

  • Transcontinental r/r completed

  • Battle of little bighorn

  • Farmers alliance created

  • Thomas edison invents light bulb

  • Chinese exclusion act

  • Edison lights up NYC

  • Statue of Liberty built

  • American federation of labor founded

  • Interstate commerce act passed

  • Dawes act

  • Jacob Riis published his book of photos

  • Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power

  • Sherman ant-trust act passed

  • Wounded knee massacre

  • Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west

  • Pullman strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • Carlisle school established

  • Holden v hardy

  • Spanish American War begins

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • philippines islands annexed

  • Newlands Reclamation act

  • Panama Canal is built

  • Lochner v New York

  • sinclair's the jungle was written

  • Pure Food and drug act passed

  • Muller V Oregon

  • Founding of the NAACP

  • 17th adm

  • ford motors first full assembly

  • federal reserved act

  • beginning of the first world war

  • clayton antitrust act

  • lusitania sunk

  • us enters ww1

  • selective service act

  • ww1 ended

  • 18th adm

  • 19th adm

  • immigration quota act/national origins act

  • scopes trial