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Beginning of the first world war
WWI Starts -
U-Boats created
The first German submarine -
Bessemer Process
the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel -
Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak
Gold was Discovered -
Morrill Land grant act
made it possible for states to establish public colleges funded by the development or sale of associated federal land grants -
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. -
Transcontinental r/r completed
The approximately 1,912-mile continuous railroad constructed between 1863 and 1869 extending from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Francisco, California. -
Statue of Liberty built
It was built, France had it, then they took it apart and shipped it to the US. -
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
cooperatively owned retail stores and marketing organizations -
Thomas edison invents light bulb
Edison invented the light bulb -
Carlisle school established
The United States founded the Carlisle school in 1879 at the site of an old military base. -
Chinese exclusion act
the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States -
Edison lights up NYC
Edison provided electricity for hundreds of homes in NYC in 1882 -
American federation of labor founded
gaining the right to bargain collectively for wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions -
Dawes act
"An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations" -
Interstate commerce act passed
Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act, making the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation. -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
stimulated the first significant New York legislation to curb poor conditions in tenement housing. -
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
The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed to address concerns by consumers who felt they were paying high prices on essential goods and by competing companies who believed they were being shut out of their industries by larger corporations. -
Wounded knee massacre
was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States -
Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west
Essay of how the frontier had made the United States unique. -
Pullman strike
widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894 -
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
U.S and Spain go to War -
Hawaii is annexed
extended U.S. territory into the Pacific -
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 -
Pure Food and drug act passed
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce -
Sinclair’s the Jungle written
published serially in 1905 and as a single-volume book in 1906 -
Lochner v New York
The Supreme Court held that the law violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause because the law unreasonably interfered with the freedom of contract and did not advance any legitimate health or safety objective -
Muller V Oregon
Oregon imposed a law that prohibited businesses from making female employees work shifts of longer than 10 hours -
Founding of the NAACP
The NAACP was established -
Hepner act
imposes the forfeiture and liability to pay double the value of the goods received, concealed -
17th amendment
Amendment modified Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. -
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
Henry Ford and his employees successfully began using this innovation at our Highland Park assembly plant. -
Federal Reserve act
created the Federal Reserve System, known simply as "The Fed." -
Clayton Antitrust act
defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor. -
Panama Canal is built
was first developed following the failure of a French construction team in the 1880s, when the United States commenced building a canal across a 50-mile stretch of the narrow Panama isthmus -
Lusitania Sunk
the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania -
US enters WWI
U.S declares 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
World War 1 ended -
18th Amendment
prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption -
19 amendment
granted women the right to vote. -
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. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s. -
Immigration quota act
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
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.