Hunter Gladwell's Timeline

1. Timeline
1865-1895
By: Hunter Gladwell

2. In 1855 Henry Bessemer found the first industrialize
easy and inexpensive way to produce steel
1840-1861
In 1857 Frederick Law Olmsted was a landscape architect
and in 1857 he drew the plans and then set the project
forward for the now famous Central Park in New York City
In 1848 Karl Marx is lead to be the Father of modern
Communism with the publishing of one of his books
about Communism
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3. The Homestead Act
was passed in 1862
that offered 160
acres of land to any
citizen or intending
citizen who was the
head of the
household
1862 1863 1864
Homesteaders were the The Sand Creek Massacre
settlers on free land was where John
provided by the Chivington and his killed
Homestead Act over 150 Cheyenne and
Arapaho who were all
Greenbacks was the name unarmed and defenseless
for paper currency in the
Post Civil War era, there
were 2 types, U.S. Notes,
and a Demand Note
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4. 1865 1866 1867
Buffalo Soldiers were
Wild Bill Hickok was the first Oliver Kelley Created the
formed on September 21,
to be portrayed to be in a Patrons of Husbandry on
1866. They were in the 10th
“quick draw duel”. Where he November 15, 1867 trying
Cavalry Regiment who
killed Davis Tutt to create a new foundation
served in the Indian Wars
of Agriculture
Grange, are farmers who are in
the Patrons of Husbandry
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5. Exodusters were African
Americans in the post-
reconstruction era that
moved from the South to
Kansas. By 1870 there
were over 17,000 blacks
exodusters in Kansas
1868 1869 1870
The Transcontinental John D. Rockefeller
Railroad was a project by the founded his Standard Oil
Union Pacific Company and Company which is where
the Central Pacific Company he the majority of his
that connected the East Billions by buying up other
Coast with the West Coast oil companies and running
other oil companies out of
George Westinghouse invented the railway
business
air brake which was able to stop a train faster
and safer than any other brakes, then worked
with Thomas Edison worked together to
make an electricity distribution machine
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6. 1871 1872 1873
Tammany Hall in the Tweeds Bimetallism is a monetary
Regime era started to fall after the system where the Government
Orange Riot he then died in 1872 would gold or silver to people
after being arrested and tried for paper currency or for bank
checks
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The Telephone was
created by Sitting Bull’s biggest battle in
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Thomas Watson in
Big Horn where he crushed the
1876 that converts
acousting sounds 7th Cavalry under the command
vibrations to of George A. Custer killing
electrical signals to everyone
transmit sounds
1874 1875 1876
George A. Custer’s fame
Alexander Graham Bell came from his foolish mistake
and his associate where he led 208 men to their
Thomas Watson death at Little Big Horn where
successfully created Sitting Bull and his men
the world’s first slaughtered them all
telephone in 1876
The Battle of Little of Big Horn
Jim Crow Laws
was fought between George
were enacted
between 1876-1965 A. Custer’s men and Sitting
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name for men slaughtered Custer’s 7th
segregation laws Cavalry Regiment

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Chief Joseph was the Before Cornelius
leader of the Nez Perce Vanderbilt’s death in
who fought against the 1877 he donated
U.S. army and showed $1Million for the
incredible courage in the establishment of
face of adversity Vanderbilt University in
Nashville
1877 1878 1879
Nez Perce were a group of
Native Americans who
were involved in the Indian The Gilded Age The Tweed Ring The Old Law tenements
Wars in the 1860s, led by was the name for was a group of were built in New York City
their Chief, Joseph, they the growth of the corrupt political that were very common in
were forced off their lands U.S. economy officials in New York the city at that time
in Oregon but are now and population in City, The leader of
making a comeback with the Post-Civil that group William
having over 2,000
members
War era Tweed was elected
The Southern Alliance was to the New York
founded in 1877 in Lampasas State Senate, but
County, Texas where it set out to was also declining in
ameliorate debt, poverty, and crop
prices by educating men and
power by 1877
women in Agriculture

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1880 1881 1882
In 1880 Thomas A. Edison
created the world’s very first Booker T. Washington
incandescent light bulb Established the Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial Institute

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1886 1887 1888
Formed on 1886 where a The Dawes Act of 1887 was In 1888 George
group of black farmers passed to “Americanize” Native Eastman was able to
organized this alliance and Americans it then broke up successfully create
in 1887 they were reservations where Native and sell the worlds
chartered under Texas Law Americans would get part of it first camera that has
and then the Government would a roll of film in it, he
Samuel Gompers founded sell the rest to settlers called it the “Kodak”
the American Federation of
Labor and was its President Jacob Riis discovered in 1887 that he
from 1886-1895 to his death could take pictures while using a
flashlight, thus paving the way for
modern cameras to flash when a
picture was taken

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Jane Addams Co-Founded
the Hull House in Chicago The Massacre of Wounded Knee
which became the most happened on December 29, 1890
famous settlement house in where 350 Sioux were rounded up
the U.S. and was then the first because of them doing the Ghost
woman to be awarded the Dance, then someone fired and the
Nobel peace prize in 1931 7th Cavalry massacred over 300
Sioux in minutes
1889 1890 1891
The Ghost Dance was a dance that The origin of the
The most famous the Sioux believed that if they did it Grandfather
settlement house is and then have an albino buffalo be clause came from
born that the Native Americans land the Jim Crow
Chicago’s Hull House. would be returned to them Laws that stated
These houses were made if anyone was
as community centers that The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 made it eligible before
provided assistance to illegal for companies to form a trust that January 1, 1867
people in the area, interfered with free trade between states or was able to vote
especially immigrants with other countries
The first Literacy tests were introduced
to voting for African-Americans in 1890
before they could vote, they had to
pass it

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1892 1893 1894
The Omaha Platform was a
party program adopted by
the Populist party in Omaha, George Pullman was
Nebraska on July 4, 1892 given permission to use
federal troops to
suppress the Pullman
Ellis Island was the Strike that was going on
busiest immigration
inspection station from Pullman Strike was a
1892 to 1924 nationwide conflict between
Ida B. Wells witnessed 3 of labor unions and railroads
her African-American that occurred in the U.S. in
business friends get lynched 1894
on March 9, 1892

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Plessy V. Ferguson was the Supreme
Courts ruling where the separation of races
in public accommodations was legal and did
not violate the 14th amendment
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famous for his “The Cross of Gold
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Presidential election
1895 1896 1897
William McKinley was nominated
William Randolph Hearst for President of the U.S. because Ragtime was very
Purchased the New York of his and the Republicans belief popular between the n-
Morning Journal In 1895, in their commitment to the Gold American people and its
where he harassed Joseph Standard popularity lasted
Pulitzer since he had just till1918, eventually
bough his own Newspaper leading to Jazz,
business The Cross of Gold Speech was given on Rhythm, and Blues
July 9, and was given by William
W.E.B Dubois was the first Jennings Bryan To win him the
African American to Democratic Presidential nomination and
receive a doctorate from was later defeated by William McKinley
Harvard

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1901 1902 1903
Andrew Carnegie was one of In 1903 Oliver and Wilbur
the first industrial moguls to Wright the first people on
make his own fortune, by Earth to successfully fly,
making his business in the they flew 120 feet which
steel industry where he made lasted 12 seconds
a fortune by buying up all of
his competitors and running
them out of business, he then
went to sell his steel business
in 1901

15. 1904 1905 1906
Eugene Debs formed the IWW
on June 27, 1905 and was
also one of the founders of the
Socialist party
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16. 1910 1911 1912
Angel Island officially
opened as an
immigration station
Chinese and Asian
immigrants
Segregation was in the Jim
Crow Laws where Black and
Whites would be separated in
public an private places