Events
Black Friday
(Sept 1869)NYTimes & Nast
expose Boss Tweed
(July 1871)Credit Mobilier Scandal
exposed (1872)Whiskey Ring exposed
(May 1875)Belkap resigns from
Secretary of War
(Mar. 1876)Liberal Republican Party
convention (May 1872)General Amnesty Act passed
(May 1872)Grant vetoes
bill to print more paper
$$ (Apr 1874)Resumption Act
(Jan 1875)Coinage Act of
1873 (Apr)Redemption Day
(1879)Mid-term elections
(Nov 1874)Election of 1876
(Nov)Civil Rights Act
of 1875 (Mar)Compromise of 1877
(Feb)Great Railroad Strike of 1877
(July - Sept)Cali had 75k new asians,
9% of pop (1880)Election of 1880
(Nov)Garfield dies
(Sept 1881)Chinese Exclusion Act
(May 1882)Civil Rights Cases
(1883)Plessy v Ferguson
(May 1896)US v. Wong Kim
(Mar 1898)Pendleton Act
(Jan 1883)Election of 1884
(Nov)Cleveland proposes
lower tariffs due to surplus
in treasury (Dec 1887)Congressional Elections
of 1890 (Nov)Election of 1888
(Nov)McKinley Tariff Act
(Oct 1890)Populist party formed
(1892)Silver miners' strike in Idaho
(July 1892)Homestead Strike
(July 1892)Election of 1892
(Nov)Populist party descends into
racism (1896)Gold reserve reaches $41 mill
(Feb 1894)Sherman Silver Purchase
Act passed (july 1890)Sherman Silver Purchase
Act repealed (Aug 1893)Cleveland-Morgan deal
(Feb 1895)Wilson-Gorman Tariff
(Aug 1894)Congressional elections
of 1894 (Nov)Agriculture is US's biggest
business (1870)Pacific RR Act*
(July 1862)Wedding of Rails
(May 1869)Northern Pacific RR
(Sept 1883)Atchison RR
(Nov 1884)Southern Pacific RR
(Mar. 1884)Great Northern RR
(Jan 1893)Westinghouse Air Brake
invented (1872)Pullman Palace Cars
est. (1862)Time standardized
(Nov 1883)Wabash v. Illinois
decided (Oct 1886)Interstate Commerce Act
passed (Feb 1887)Model T assembly
fully Developed (1913)first phone call
made (Mar 1876)Light bulb perfected
by Edison (Oct 1879)Standard Oil
est. (Jan 1870)US making as much steel
as Britain & Germany
combined (1900)Morgan buys Carnegie Steel
& est. US Steel Corporation
(1901)Internal Combustion
Engine more popular than
steam/electricity for
propulsion (1900)Standard Oil Trust est.
(1882)Rockefeller controls
95% of oil refineries in
US (1887)Sherman Anti-Trust Act
(July 1890)N capitalists made
cotton mills in S (1880)1/2 of Americans
self-employed
(1860)2/3 of working Americans
on wages (1900)transatlantic telegraph
completed (July 1866)Suez Canal completed
(Nov 1869)National Labor Union founded
(Aug 1866)Wage reductions
(July 1877)Knights of Labor founded
(Dec 1869)Successful strike against
Wabash RR by Knights
(1885)Haymarket Square Attack
(May 1886)AF of L founded
(Dec 1886)first labor day
(Sept 1894)1st skyscraper built
(1885)Brooklyn Bridge built
(1883)Chicago burns down
(Oct. 1871)Hull House est
(Sept 1889)Henry Street Settlement
in NY est (1893)Florence Kelley leads lobby for
Illinois anti-sweatshop law (1893)APA founded
(Mar. 1887)Immigration Act
of 1882 (Aug)US prohibits importing
foreign workers under contract
w/ substandard wages (Feb 1885)Statue of Liberty
dedicated to US
(Oct 1886)150 religious
denominations
(1890)Salvation Army comes to
US (1879)Church of Christ, Scientist
est 1879Darwin's theories
penetrate scientific community
(1875)Chautauqua mvmt
started (1874)Illiteracy rate: 20%
(1870)Illiteracy rate: 10.7%
(1900)Tuskegee Institute
founded (July 1881)DuBois founds
NAACP (Feb 1909)Key:
Dark blue - big business yont/upper class
Dark red - laborer yont
Green - nativist yont
Orange - Republican yont
Blue - Dem yont
Red - presidency
pink - presidential elections
puke green - general milestone for US
brown - AA yont
light purple - lit and arts
purple - women's mvmt
gold - natives1/3 of college grads = women
(1880)AA institutions est during
Reconstruction → S AA colleges
(1900)Morrill Act of
1862 (July)Hatch Act
(Mar 1887)Pragmatism published
by William James (1907)Library of Congress
opens (Nov 1897)Linotype invented
(July 1885)Hearst creates San
Francisco Examiner
(1887)Nation journal started
(July 1865)George publishes Progress
and Poverty (1879)NAWSA founded
(May 1890)New gen of women fight
for suffrage (1900)Wyoming legalizes
women's suffrage (1869)National Association of
Colored Women est (1896)National Prohibition
Party formed (1869)WCTU founded (1874)Red cross founded
(May 1881)Adventures of Tom
Sawyer published (1876)Central park designed
(1873)Treaty of Fort
Laramie (Apr 1868)Battle of Little Bighorn
(June 1876)Nez Perce natives in
NE Oregon (1877)<1k bison left (1885)Wounded Knee
Massacre (Dec 1890)Dawes Act
(Feb 1887)Carlisle Indian School
(Nov 1879)Comstock Lode found
(1859)Women vote in Utah
(1870)Women vote in Colorado
(1893)Women vote in Idaho (1896)Winter of 1886 - 1887Utah admitted as state
(1896)Boomers occupy Oklahoma
territory (Apr 1889)Frontier line officially gone
(1890)Yellowstone Park est.
(1872)First catalogue sent
out (1872)The Grange founded
(1867)Pullman Strike (July 1894)Election of 1896
(Nov)Dingley Tariff Bill
(July 1897)Periods
Grant's presidency (Mar. 1865 - Mar. 1877)Hayes's presidency (Mar 1877 - Mar 1881)Garfield's Presidency (Mar 1881 - Sept 1881)Arthur's presidency (Sept. 1881 - Mar. 1885)Cleveland's presidency (Mar. 1885 - Mar. 1889)Harrison's presidency (Mar. 1889 - Mar. 1893)Cleveland's second term
(Mar. 1893 - Mar. 1897)Panic of 1873
(1873 - 1879)Panic of 1893
(1893 - 1897)Kerosene is US's most valuable export
(1870s)S agriculture boosted when machine-made cigarettes became popular (1880s)Hundreds of thousands of unskilled workers come to US (1880s & 1890s)Rich ppl give away ~$150 mill to education for philanthropy (1878 - 1898)Homestead Act in effect
(1862 -Higher wheat prices in 1870s6-year droughtFarmers compete w/ low prices of wheat in Argentina, Russia, etc (1880s)
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