1. 19th Century Timeline
1850 1862 1864
Bessemer Homestead Act- a U.S. law that Sand Creek Massacre- Most of
Process- A cheap provided 160 acres in the west to the Cheyenne had peacefully
and effective any citizen or intended citizen who returned to Colorado’s San
process for making was head of household and would Creek reserve for winter but
steel. cultivate the land for five years; a General S.R. Curtis sent a
law whose passage led to record telegram to militia colonel John
numbers of U.S. settlers claiming Chivington that read “I want no
private property which previously peace till the Indians suffer
had been reserved by treaty and more.” So Chivington and his
by tradition for Native American troops descended on the
nomadic dwelling and use; the Cheyenne and Arapho camped
same law strengthened in 1889 to at Sand Creek; the attack at
encourage individuals to exercise dawn on November 29 killed
their private property rights and over 150 inhabitants, mostly
develop homesteads out of the women and children.
vast government.

2. 1869 1876 1887 1890
Transcontinenta Telephone- most Dawes Act- broke Wounded Knee- On
l Railroad- a dramatic invention up reservations and December 28, the Seventh
railroad line unveiled by gave some of the Cavalry rounded up about 350
linking the Alexander Graham reservation land to starving and freezing Sioux
Atlantic and Belland and Thomas individual Native and took them to a camp at
Pacific coasts of Watson; it opened Americans-160 Wounded Knee Creek in
the U.S. the way for a acres to each head South Dakota. The soldiers
worldwide of household and 80 made them give up their
communications acres to each weapons. A shot was fired and
network unmarried adult. within minutes, the Seventh
Cavalry slaughtered 300
unarmed Native Americans
including several children; the
soldiers left the bodies to
freeze on the ground.

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4. 1890 1896 1876 1866
Battle of Little Big Buffalo Soldiers-
Sherman Antitrust Plessy vs.
Horn- an armed they were the
Act- this act made it Ferguson- a case in
engagement original members of
illegal to form a trust which the supreme
between combined the U.S. 10th Cavalry
that interfered with court ruled that
forces of Lakota, Regiment of the
free trade between separation of the
Northern Cheyenne U.S. Army formed
states or with other races in public
and Arapho tribes on September 21 at
countries accommodations
against the 7th Fort Leavenworth
was legal, thus
Cavalry Regiment of Kansas.
establishing the
the U.S. Army.
“separate but equal”
doctrine.

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6. 1890 1867 1886 1890
Ghost Dance- a National Farmer’s Colored Farmer’s
Sherman Antitrust
religious movement Alliance- It was started Alliance- a group of Act- First measure
which was by the Grange and was black farmers who passed by the U.S.
incorporated into an agrarian economic formed their own Congress to prohibit
numerous Native movement; farmers alliance to fill their
trusts.
American belief joined together to needs.
systems. decrease debt, poverty,
and low crop prices
through education,
economic cooperation
and organizing, and
asserting their power in
electoral politics.

7. 1892 1870 1886 1884
Omaha Platform- John D. Samuel Gompers- Eugene V. Debs- he
The party program Rockefeller- He he founded the was a member of
adopted at the founded the American Federation the Democratic
formative convention Standard Oil of Labor and served Party and was
of the Populist Party Company and as that elected as a
held in Omaha, aggressively ran it organization’s Democrat to the
Nebraska on July 4. until he officially president until his Indiana General
retired. death. Assembly.

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9. 1890 1943 1945
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11. This first computer
was made of wood This portable
and powered by computer only The latest
steam! weighed 475 pounds computers are made
and was moved by a of folded paper and
team of draft horses very expensive tape
An early model
nicknamed “El Pinto”
because it This short-lived
sometimes burst into model was both a
flames computer and a
fashionable hat
1885 1904 1922 1931 1999 2040
This old looking This Depression-era
computer is an early computer doubled
MacIntosh computer as a furnace
A late model, “green
technology”
This model was computer made of
called the Compy recycled dead X-box
386 consoles

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your presentation

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hand side of the screen.

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