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Bessemer Process
The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. -
Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak
They found gold in Pikes Peak -
Homestead Act.
Allows a maximum exemption amount of $2,500 of one's equity, with a maximum of one acre -
Morrill Land grant act
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
They completed the transcontinental railroad. -
Statue of Liberty built
The copper statue in New York. -
Battle of little bighorn
Battle between indians and the U.S. -
Farmers Alliance created
An organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers -
Thomas edison invents light bulb
Light bulb lights up your room -
Carlisle school established
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Edison lights up NYC
Thomas Edisons company flipped the switch on his pearl street power station and provides electricity for hunereds of homes. -
Chinese exclusion act
Gives a 10 year ban on chinese laborers from coming into america -
American federation of labor founded
A national federation of labor unions in the United States -
Interstate commerce act passed
Grants Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”—to regulating railroad rates. -
Dawes Act.
A law that authorated the president to break up reservation land. -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
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U-boats creation
They are german submarines or as they would call it underwasser boats. -
Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power
a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire. -
Sherman ant-trust act passed
Prohibits trusts -
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
Fredrick Jackson Turner moving to the west. -
Pullman strike
Widespread railroad strike and boycott that severley disrupted rail traffic in the midwest of the U.S. -
Plessy v Ferguson
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, 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
A war between spain and america -
Hawaii is annexed
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
Newlands of Nevada introduced legislation into the United States Congress to provide federal help for irrigation projects. -
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. -
Panama Canal is built
an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. -
Sinclair’s the Jungle written
a fictional novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair -
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 lesser 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. -
Founding of the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States -
Hepner act
Shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a sum double the amount or value of the goods, wares, or merchandise so received, concealed, or purchased. -
17th ammendment
Allows voters to diresctly vote for U.S. senators. -
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
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Federal Reserve act
The 1913 Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System, known simply as "The Fed." It was implemented to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
Beginning of the first world war
a major global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918. It was fought between two coalitions, the Allies and the Central Powers. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia -
Clayton Antitrust act
Prohibits price decrimination -
Lusitania Sunk
A british registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by a russian u-liner during the first world war and sunk. -
US enters WWI
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Selective Service act
authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. -
WWI ends
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18th ammendment
Prohibited the "manufacturing, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors." -
19th ammendment
Allowed the right to vote no matter what gender you are -
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
The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and 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
formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925