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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" was passed. -
Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power
In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History. -
Bessemer Process
allowed steel to be produced without fuel. -
Discovery Of Gold In Pikes Peak
people came to pikes peak moving over cheyenne and arapaho lands, settlers pushed from gold fields, and relied on caravans coming from the east for survivial and trade. -
Morrill Land Grant Act
The Morrill Land Grant College Act, set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.” -
The Transcontinental Railroad Completed
The Transcontinental Railroad became the first continuous railroad line across the United States, and was finished building in 1869. -
Statue of Liberty built
the ststue of liberty was bult between 1875 to 1884. -
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 Montana -
Farmers alliance created
Farmers set up cooperatively owned retail stores and marketing organizations. -
Carlisle school established
administrators forced students to speak English, wear Anglo-American clothing, and act according to U.S. values and culture. -
Thomas edison invents light bulb
Edison decided to try a carbonized cotton thread filament. When voltage was applied to the completed bulb, it began to radiate a soft orange glow, this was a light bulb. -
Chinese exclusion act
the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10 year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States. -
Edison lights up NYC
His company flipped the switch on his Pearl Street power station on September 4, 1882, providing hundreds of homes with electricity. -
American federation of labor founded
after the KOL rejected a proposal reaffirming the historic separation of trade-union and labour-reform functions, the craft unions revolted. -
Interstate commerce act passed
he Interstate Commerce Act created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry. -
Dawes act
An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations was approved. -
Sherman ant-trust act passed
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices, approved july 2 1890 -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
Scribner's published Riis's work in book form. -
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. -
Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west
Frederick Jackson Turner | Biography, Works, & Influence ...
Turner first detailed his own interpretation of American history in his justly famous paper in 1893 -
Pullman strike
widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States. -
Holden v hardy
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
the Hawaiian islands were officially annexed by the United States. -
Phillipines islands are annexed
the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago. -
Newlands Reclamation act
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. -
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 completed in 1914. -
U-boats created
The first German submarine, the U-1, was built. -
Lochner v New York
the Supreme Court issued a 5–4 decision in favor of Lochner that struck down the New York Bakeshop Act's limits on bakers' working hours as unconstitutional. -
Pure Food and drug act passed
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency. -
Muller V Oregon
The Court found that the law was constitutional, stating that the Oregon legislature had a compelling interest in protecting women. -
Hepner act
This action of debt was brought by the United States to recover a penalty under the statute of Congress of March 3d, 1903, regulating the immigration of aliens into this country. -
Founding of the NAACP
The NAACP was created in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington. -
17th adm
allowing 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
the Senate passed and President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act. -
Beginning of the first world war
the beginning of the first world war. -
WWI ends
the world war one ends. -
Clayton Antitrust act
The Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton, and the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 are the foundation of antitrust laws in the United States and are codified in Title 15 of the United States Code. -
Lusitania Sunk
the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. -
US enters WWI
Germany's resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships in 1917 -
Selective Service act
Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. -
18th adm
prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.' -
National origins act
a federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. -
Immigration quota act
a federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. -
Scopes trial
The trial lasted only eight days with the jury returning a verdict of guilty in less than nine minutes. John Scopes was fined $100. -
Plessy v Ferguson
The ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races."