1. 1865-1895
By Logan Louzader
Bessemer
process:
injected air into
molten iron to
remove the
carbon and
other impurities,
to make steel
1795 1834 1850 1857 1859
Collective Federal
Fredrick Law Darwin
bargaining: government Olmstead: published origin
negotiation passed an act helped draw a of species,
between that designated plan for Central stating the
representatives the entire Great Park to be built theory of
of labor and Plains as one in NY. biological
management to enormous evolution.
reach written reservation.
agreements

2. Most of the
Cheyenne,
assuming they were Oliver Kelley: started
under the protection the Patrons of
of the Husbandry, an
U.S.Government, organization for
had peacefully farmers that became
returned to known as Grange.
Colorado’s Sand Its original purpose Tammany Hall- New
Creek Reserve for was to provide a York City’s powerful
winter. social outlet for an democratic voting
educational forum. machine.
1866 1864 1862 1867 1867 1868
Homestead Act Sitting Bull, leader of
Railroads were Grandfather clause: the Hunkpapa Sioux
was passed
shipping longhorns stated that if your never signed the
offering 160
to Chicago and grandfather or father Treaty of Fort
acres of land
markets throughout was eligible to vote Laramie
free to any
the east then you were.
citizen or
intended citizen
who was head
of the
household.

3. Long drives took 3
months, typically one
cowboy for every 250-
300 cattle, a cook also
drove the chuck wagon
and set up camp. And a
American wrangler who cared for
entrepreneur the extra horses.
George Cowboys during this John.D.Rockefeller –
Westinghouse drive road on saddles his oil company
invented the railroad from dusk to dawn, slept controlled 2 or 3
air brake on the ground and percent of the
bathed in rivers. countries crude oil.
1869 1870 1870 1870 1870 1873
Carnegie at age 18
Groups, including
Jacob Riis-finds becomes a private
many others who
work as a police secretary to the lead
were sympathized
reporter, taking him superintendent of
for farmers, sent
to New York’s slums the Pennsylvania
lecturers from town
. railroad.
to town to educate
people about lower
interest rates on
loans and
government control
over railroads and
banks.

4. Homesteaders:
were one of the
600,000 families
that moved onto
the land that the
Homestead Act
gave, consisted of
People gave Private speculators,
A mixture of
different illegal railroad and
payments to government agents
people and
the voting , cattlemen, miners,
different Michigan Central
machines, and woodcutters.
cultures Railroad went
enriching
blended through Vanderbilt
them
together Michigan
1875 1875 1876 1876 1877 1879 1880
Candidates Crazy Horse, Gall,
Thomas Edison
used graft: and Sitting Bull invented the
Illegal use of outflanked and lightbulb.
political crushed George
influence to Armstrong Custer’s
get into office troops, within an
Act that was a
hour Custer and his
response to to the
troops were dead.
failure of the 1867
tenement house act,
requiring a window
The Telephone was in each room.
invented

5. Gilded Age was
published by Mark
Twain and Charles
Dudley about
characters who find
it hard to get rich.
Participants worked Samuel
together in a trust Joseph Gompers
Served as a scout which turned their Pulitzer: a becomes
and a spy during the stock over to a Hungarian president of the
Civil War, and later group of trustees, immigrant, American
as a marshal in companies then got bought the New Federation of
Abilene, Kansas profit for trust York World Labor
1880 1880 1881 1883 1885 1886
Political Haymarket
20 percent of the Assimilation, which
Machines Affair occurs
immigrants of Ellis was a plan under
offered which
Island were detained which Native
services to bombed a
for over a day and Americans would
voters and Chicago
had to pass a give up their beliefs
companies Market
physical examination and way of life and
for political during a
became part of
or financial strike.
white culture.
support
Community centers
George Washington
help people in slum
Carver graduated
neighborhoods
from Virginia
Hampton Institute

6. Dawes Act, Sherman Antitrust Act
aimed to made it illegal to form
Americanize the a trust that interfered
Native with free trade.
Americans, it
gave some of
the reservation
land to Strike at
There was twice as Carnegies
individual Native
Jane Adams founded many Irish Steel
Americans
Chicago’s Hull House Immigrants in New Company.
York than Dublin,
Ireland.
1887 1888 1889 1890 1890 1892
Custer’s old
Poll tax was required Reformers began to
to be paid before press elimination of regiment, rounded
up 350 starving and
qualifying to vote. Patronage and adapt
freezing Sioux and
a merit system of
took them to the
hiring.
George Eastman camp of Wounded
introduced the Kodak Knee Creek in South
Camera. Dakota, The next
day a shot was fired
and the soldiers
opened fire with
deadly cannon, they
slaughtered 300
mostly unarmed
Native Americans

7. Pullmans strike
Buisnessmen were
emerged due to not named Robber
being able to drink, Barons for having
not being able to questionable
loiter, and refusal to practices and paying
lower rents workers poorly.
1892 1893 1894 1895 1895
The American William Randolph W.E.B. Dubois was
3 Of Ida B, Wells’ Bimetallism: A
Railway Union won a the first African
friends were executed monetary system In Hearst purchased the
strike for higher American to receive a
without trial which the government New York Morning
wages. Doctorates degree
would give citizens Journal
from Harvard
gold or silver in
exchange for paper
currency or checks,
supporters hoped that
this measure would
stimulate the
economy.

8. 50,000 Chinese
entered the Us
through Angel
Island.
Women made on Mexicans became a
average 267$ in major role in Debt
tenement shops. Peonage.
1896 1899 1901 1902 1903 1915
Companies Bicycle
Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court ruled Achieved Monopoly, manufactures from
Dayton, Ohio
that the separation a complete control
designed a bi plane
of races at public over its industry
production, wages and at Kitty Hawk
accomodations was
flew 120 feet for 12
legal and did not and price.
seconds.
violate the 14th
amendmen.

9. URL’s
http://www.redbubble.com/people/rondayviews/works/5958528-molten-iron-
melted-iron-poured-from-a-pot
http://www.biography.com/people/sitting-bull-9485326
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/kelley_o/kelley_o.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie
http://www.sparkmuseum.com/TELEPHONE.HTM
http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustration/how-to-draw-a-realistic-
vector-light-bulb-from-scratch/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer
http://www.lib.niu.edu/1994/ihy941208.html