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U-boats created
A boat to destroy neutral ships that were supplying the Allies -
Bessemer Process
It is 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 Pikes Peak
The Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak -
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
An act made it possible for states to establish public colleges funded by the development or sale of associated federal land grants. -
Transcontinental r/r completed
iTranscontinental r/r completes is a recognized as one of our country's biggest achievements and one of mankind's biggest accomplishments. -
Farmers alliance created
The Farmers' Alliance was first organized in Texas in the mid-1870s and soon spread to other states and territories in the South and Midwest. -
Battle of little bighorn
The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne. -
Carlisle school established
Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, opened in 1879 as the first government-run boarding school for Native American children. -
Thomas edison invents light bulb
Thomas edison invents light bulb -
Carlisle school established
Their goal was to prepare American Indian students to work jobs outside of the reservation. Students studied English, math, geography, and music. Boys learned industrial skills. -
Chinese exclusion act
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States -
Edison lights up NYC
Edison in New York City, the year when he lit up Manhattan. -
American Federation of Labor Founded
The American Federation of Labor Founded was a national federation of labor unions in the United States. -
Statue of Liberty built
The Statue of Liberty was done being built -
Interstate commerce act passed
The Interstate Commerce Act, making the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation. -
Dawes act
The Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severally to Indians on the Various Reservations," known as the Dawes Act, emphasized severally – the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes. -
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
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a federal statute which prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace. -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
The work documenting the living conditions of the poor. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children in an attempt to suppress a religious movement -
Pullman strike
The Pullman Strike was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the U.S. Midwest -
Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west
The Significance of the Frontier in American History. -
Pullman strike
Pullman strike was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the U.S -
Plessy v Ferguson
The U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional. -
Holden v hardy
These were writs of error to review two judgments of the supreme court of the state of Utah denying applications of the plaintiff in error, Holden, for his discharge upon two writs of habeas corpus, and remanding him to the custody of the sheriff of Salt Lake count. -
Holden v hardy
Hardy, 169 U.S. 366 (1898), is 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 United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor -
Hawaii is annexed
America's annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. -
Phillipines islands are annexed
Americans who advocated annexation evinced a variety of motivations: desire for commercial opportunities in Asia, concern that the Filipinos were incapable of self-rule. -
Newlands Reclamation act
The act set aside money from sales of semi-arid public lands for the construction and maintenance of irrigation projects. -
Lochner v New York
In Lochner v. New York (1905), the Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional. -
Sinclair’s the Jungle written
Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. -
Panama Canal is built
The Panama Canal was built to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. -
Pure Food and drug act passed
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce. -
Muller V Oregon
Whether a state could limit the amount of hours a woman could work while not also limiting the hours of men -
Founding of the NAACP
Founding of the NAACP was formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. -
Hepner act
That case was a civil action to recover a penalty for importing an alien into the United States to perform labor -
17th Amendment
It is allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. -
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
The workers put V-shaped magnets on Model T flywheels to make one-half of the flywheel magneto. -
Federal Reserve act
1 Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
Beginning of the first world war
The beginning of WW1 -
Clayton Antitrust act
The Clayton Antitrust Act is a piece of legislation, passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law in 1914, that defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor. -
Lusitania Sunk
The German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania -
US enters WWI
Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I -
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. -
WWI Ends
WWI ended -
18th Amendment
It prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” in the United States. -
19th Amendment
Allowing women to vote. -
Immigration quota act
Immigration quota act 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 -
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.