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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.