US History 1865-1920

By Izzy Strickland

  • Bessemer Process

    a process of making steel from pig iron by burning out carbon and other impurities by means of a blast of air forced through the molten metal.

  • Discovery of gold in piles peak

    a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek that yielded about 20 troy ounces (622 grams) of gold,

  • Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power

  • Homestead Act

    accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families

  • Morrill Land grant act

    set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.

  • Farmers alliance created

  • Transcontinental r/r 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

  • Thomas edison invents light bulb

  • Carlisle school established

  • Chinese exclusion act

    restricting immigration into the United States

  • Edison lights up NYC

    lipped the switch on his Pearl Street power station

  • American federation of labor founded

  • Interstate commerce act passed

  • Dawes act

    An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severally to Indians on the Various Reservations

  • U-boats created

  • Sherman ant-trust act passed

  • Jacob Riis published his book of photos

  • Wounded knee massacre

  • Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west

  • Pullman strike

    widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest .

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    pheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races."

  • Holden v hardy

  • Spanish American War begins

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • Phillipines islands are annexed

  • Newlands Reclamation act

    that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.

  • Panama Canal is built

  • Sinclair’s the Jungle written

  • Lochner v New York

  • Muller V Oregon

  • Pure Food and drug act passed

  • Founding of the NAACP

  • Hepner act

    imposes the forfeiture and liability to pay double the value of the goods received, concealed,

  • 17th adm

    allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators

  • Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts

  • Federal Reserve act

  • Beginning of the first world war

  • Clayton Antitrust act

  • Selective Service act

  • US enters WWI

  • WWI ends

  • The 18th Adm

    manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors

  • 19 adm

  • Immigration quota act

  • National origins act

  • Statue of Liberty built

  • Scopes trial