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U-boats created
Germany built U-boats to punch holes in the British blockade, which was threatening to starve Germany out of the war -
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 Pikes Peak
Green Russell and Sam Bates found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek that yielded about 20 troy ounces of gold -
Homestead Act
Act that 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
Act that stimulated the creation or development of the 68 colleges and universities in the United States now referred to as “Land Grant Colleges.” -
Transcontinental r/r completed
This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history. -
Statue of Liberty built
A French politician named Edouard de Laboulaye proposed that a monument that would honor the United States' centennial of independence and the friendship with France be built. -
Battle of little bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War -
Farmers alliance created
The Farmers' Alliance was first organized in Texas with the goal to form cooperatives -
Thomas edison invents light bulb
Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light. -
Carlisle school established
It was one of the first and most well-known boarding schools for Native children -
Chinese exclusion act
This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States. -
Edison lights up NYC
Edison provided hundreds of homes with electricity. -
American federation of labor founded
The American Federation of Labor was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO. -
Interstate commerce act passed
Act that is granting Congress the power to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States. -
Dawes act
It 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
Scribner's published Riis's work in book form, How the Other Half Lives, Studies Among the Tenements of New York -
Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power
Alfred Mahan published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire -
Sherman anti-trust act passed
This act was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. -
Wounded knee massacre
The Wounded Knee Massacre was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army -
Frederick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west
Frederick Jackson Turner wrote "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" after the Superintendent of the Census of 1890 declared that the American frontier had been settled and additional land was no longer available. -
Pullman strike
It was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the U.S. Midwest -
Plessy v Ferguson
It was a 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 -
Holden v hardy
It 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 against Spain -
Hawaii is annexed
America's annexation of Hawaii extended U.S. territory into the Pacific -
Philippines islands are annexed
In Paris, the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago -
Newlands Reclamation act
The legislation authorized the Secretary of the Interior to designate irrigation sites and to establish a reclamation fund from the sale of public lands to finance the projects -
Panama Canal is built
The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America -
Lochner v New York
The Court decided that New York did not have the right to make a law interfering with the right of an employer to make a contract with workers -
Sinclair’s the Jungle written
The Jungle is a novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair -
Pure Food and drug act passed
It prohibits interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks and drugs -
Muller V Oregon
He enacted a law that limited women to ten hours of work in factories and laundries -
Hepner act
Act which involves the right of a trial judge to direct a verdict in favor of the government in an action for penalty -
Founding of the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States -
17th adm
It allows voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators -
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile -
Federal Reserve act
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 young Serbian patriot shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the first world war began -
Clayton Antitrust act
This act prohibits price discrimination which means selling the same product to different buyers and charging different prices based on who is purchasing the goods -
Lusitania Sunk
The German submarine sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England -
US enters WWI
The U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany -
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
Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies -
18th adm
It prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors" -
19th 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 -
Immigration quota act
The Immigration Act limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota -
National origins act
It reduced overall immigration to the United States and established quotas on immigration from Western and Southern European countries -
Scopes trial
John Thomas Scopes was an American legal case from which a high school teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school