First Semester Review

By hfxdavis1

  • Invention of Telegraph

  • Homestead Act

    Congress passed this and it gave 160 free acres of land to a settler who paid a filling fee and lived on the land for five years.

  • End of Civil War

    Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederency surrendered ending the Civil War

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Started in Omaha, Nebraska and Sacramento, California. Two tracks met in Utah.

  • Boss Tweed is jailed

    Boss Tweeds plan is revealed and he is sentenced to 12 years but gets out then goes back in then dies in jail.

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Little Bighorn River in present day Montana. Invovled George Custer and Sitting Bull. Best and last victory for Native Americans.

  • Telephone is Invented

  • End of Reconstruction

    Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Congress passed law to prevent Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S.

  • Pendleton Act is passed

    Created Cival Service Test.

  • Dawes Act

    Aimed to eliminate Native American lack of private property and their nomadic tradition.

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Passed by Congress, "to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraint and monopoly."

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Last battle of war and Americans come out victorious.

  • Angel Island Opens

    Let mostly Asians into the U.S. It was located in the San Fransico Bay Area.

  • Ellis Island Opens

    Ellis Island in New York, a immigrantion center opens.

  • Model T Invented

  • Time Zones Are Created

    Time Zones are created to make traveling by train easier.