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U-boats created
the first U-boats were created -
Bessemer process
process of making steel from pig iron -
Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak
Gold was discovered in pikes peak -
Homestead act
allows a maximum exemption amount of $2,500 of one's equity, with a maximum of one acre (1/4 acre minimum) for urban properties and 160 acres if rural. -
Morrill land grant act
United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales of federally-owned land, often obtained from indigenous tribes through treaty, cession, or seizure. -
Transcontinental r/r completed
By connecting the existing eastern U.S. rail networks to the West Coast, the Transcontinental Railroad became the first continuous railroad line across the United States -
Statue of Liberty built
The Statue that France sent us was finally built. -
Battle of little bighorn
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
One of the group's main goals was to form cooperatives. Farmers set up cooperatively owned retail stores and marketing organizations. -
Thomas edison invents light bulb
Thomas Edison invents the light bulb -
Carlisle school established
The Carlisle school was established -
Chinese exclusion act
the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
Edison lights up NYC
Thomas Edisons creation of controlled electricity lit up hundreds of homes on this day -
American federation of labor founded
a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor. -
Dawes act
regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. -
Interstate commerce act passed
applied the Constitution's “Commerce Clause”—granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”—to regulating railroad rates. -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
A book of photos on the poverty in New York -
Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power
In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire. -
Sherman ant-trust act passed
first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Wounded knee massacre
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army. -
Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west
In 1893, a historian from Wisconsin, named Frederick Douglass Turner read his essay entitled, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” at the world Columbian exposition in Chicago. This essay redefined history not just as a political narrative, but as the growth of the Western frontier. -
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
the Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled 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. -
Hawaii is annexed
On July 7, 1898, the Hawaiian Islands were annexed by this joint resolution. -
Phillipines islands are annexed
the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago. -
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. -
Panama Canal is built
The Panama Canal is built -
Sinclair’s the Jungle written
The book, The Jungle, was written -
Lochner v New York
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
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce -
Muller v Oregon
a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate fewer 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. -
Hepner act
A suit brought by the United States to recover the penalty prescribed by §§ 4 and 5 of the Alien Immigration Act of March 3, 1903, c. 1012, 32 Stat. 1213, is a civil suit and not a criminal prosecution, and when it appears by undisputed testimony that a defendant has committed an offense against those sections, the trial judge may direct a verdict in favor of the government. -
Founding of the NAACP
The NAACP was founded -
17th amendment
allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. -
Federal Reserve act
created the Federal Reserve System, known simply as "The Fed." -
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
The Ford Motor Company team decided to try to implement the moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process -
Clayton Antitrust act
The Clayton Act prohibits price discrimination -
Beginning of the first world war
WW1 first began -
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. It sunk on this day -
US enters WWI
The US entered WWl -
Selective Service act
AN ACT to provide for the common defense by increasing the strength of the Armed Forces of the United States, including the reserve components thereof, and for other purposes. -
18th amendment
The amendment to end alcohol sales in America -
WWI ends
WWl ended -
19th amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
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
A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s. -
Scopes trial
a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school