US history 1865-1920

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  • U-boats created

    first german u-boats created.
  • Bessemer Process

    the process of making steel from pig iron.
  • Discovery of gold at Pikes Peak

    Gold was discovered on Pikes Peak in 1958
  • 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

    Funded the establishment of public colleges by offering land grants to states to develop or sell.
  • Transcontinental r/r completed

    The transcontinental railroad was completed.
  • Battle of little bighorn

    The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought along the ridges, steep bluffs, and ravines of the Little Bighorn River, in south-central Montana on June 25-26, 1876.
  • Farmers alliance created

    The Farmers alliance was created
  • Thomas Edison invents light bulb

    The first light bulb was created.
  • Carlisle school established

    Carlisle school opened
  • Chinese exclusion act

    the first significant law restricting immigration into the U.S. Provided an absolute ten-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the U.S.
  • Edison lights up NYC

    He lit up Manhatten and provided electricity for several homes.
  • Hepner act

    action to recover a penalty for importing an alien into the United States to perform labor,
  • American federation of labor founded

    gaining the right to bargain collectively for wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions.
  • Interstate commerce act passed

    granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”—to regulate railroad rates.
  • Dawes act

    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.
  • Jacob Riis published his book of photos

    Published his book of photos
  • Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power

    The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783
  • Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power

    The book was written
  • Sherman ant-trust act passed

    first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
  • Wounded knee massacre

    A massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
  • Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west

    Wrote the essay of settling the west.
  • 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

    U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional.
  • Holden v hardy

    US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
  • Spanish American War begins

    war begins
  • Hawaii is annexed

    Hawaii gets annexed
  • Phillipines islands are annexed

    United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago. The outraged Filipinos, led by Aguinaldo, prepared for war.
  • Newlands Reclamation act

    introduced legislation into the United States Congress to provide federal help for irrigation projects.
  • Panama Canal is built

    Panama Canal is built
  • Sinclair’s the Jungle written

    Sinclair's book is written.
  • Lochner v New York

    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

    prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
  • Pure Food and drug act passed

    prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
  • Muller V Oregon

    Oregon imposed a law that prohibited businesses from making female employees work shifts of longer than 10 hours.
  • Founding of the NAACP

    NAACP was Founded
  • 17th adm

    provided for the direct popular election of U.S. senators
  • Federal Reserve act

    establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.
  • Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts

    First full assembly line starts for ford.
  • Clayton Antitrust act

    defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor.
  • Beginning of the first world war

    war starts.
  • Lusitania Sunk

    The Lusitania sunk
  • 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
  • US enters WWI

    US entered WWI
  • Selective Service act

    authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
  • 19 adm

    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.
  • WWI ends

    ending of WWI
  • 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

    three percent of the foreign-born persons of that nationality who lived in the United States in 1910.
  • Statue of Liberty built

    The statute was officially built and put together in the U.S.
  • Scopes trial

    The Scopes “monkey trial” was the moniker journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.

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