US History 1865 - 1920

  • Bessemer Process

    The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron.
  • Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak

    Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak.
  • Homestead Act

    Provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
  • Morrill Land grant act

    To grant each state 30,000 acres of public land issued in the form of "land scrip".
  • Transcontinental r/r completed

    Workers for the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads drove a golden spike into the rails at Promontory Summit, Utah.
  • Battle of little bighorn

    Battle of little bighorn
  • Farmers alliance created

    The Farmers alliance was created.
  • Carlisle school established

    The Carlisle school was established
  • Thomas Edison invents light bulb

    Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
  • Chinese exclusion act

    This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
  • Edison lights up NYC

    Thomas Edison lights up NYC.
  • American federation of labor founded

    The American federation of labor was founded.
  • Interstate commerce act passed

    The Interstate commerce act was passed.
  • Dawes act

    The law 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

    Jacob Riis published his book of photos.
  • Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power

    Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power.
  • Sherman anti-trust act passed

    The Sherman anti-trust act was passed.
  • Wounded knee massacre

    The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota.
  • Frederick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west

    Frederick Jackson Turner writes an essay of settling the west.
  • Pullman strike

    Widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest.
  • Plessy v Ferguson

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

    The Spanish American War begins.
  • Hawaii is annexed

    Hawaii is annexed.
  • Phillipines islands are annexed

    Phillipines islands are annexed.
  • Newlands Reclamation act

    Irrigated the west through a series of dams on waterways
  • Heppner act

    Imposes the forfeiture and liability to pay double the value of the goods received, concealed, or purchased.
  • Panama Canal is built

    The Panama Canal was built.
  • Sinclair’s the Jungle written

    Sinclair’s the Jungle was written.
  • U-boats created

    U-boats created.
  • Lochner v New York

    The Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional.
  • Pure Food and drug act passed

    The Pure Food and drug act was passed.
  • Muller V Oregon

    A U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court considered 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

    Was the founding of the NAACP.
  • 17th adm

    The 17th adm was created.
  • Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts

    Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts.
  • Federal Reserve act

    The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.
  • Beginning of the first world war

    Beginning of the first world war.
  • Clayton Antitrust act

    Seeks to prevent anti-competitive practices in their incipiency.
  • Lusitania Sunk

    Lusitania Sunk.
  • US enters WWI

    US enters WWI.
  • Selective Service act

    All men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.
  • WWI ends

    WWI ends.
  • 18th adm

    The 18th adm was passed.
  • 19 adm

    The 19 adm was passed.
  • Immigration quota act

    The number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins.
  • 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.
  • Statue of Liberty built

    The Statue of Liberty was built.
  • Scopes 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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