First Semester Review Timeline

By hfxkieffe

  • Telegraph is invented

  • Homestead Act

    This offered 160 acres of land to settlers.

  • Civil War

    War between North and South states after confederates bombarded Fort Sumpter.

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    U.S. forces ordered to round up Native Americans in the area after gold was discovered. Native Americans defeat U.S.

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    A rail line that spanned the continent and connected the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.

  • Boss Tweed

    One of the most corrupt city bosses, he was the head of New York's political machine.

  • Telephone is invented

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Prohibited chinese workers from entering the United States for ten years.

  • Time Zones

    Four zones in which all communities in each zone shared the same time. Each zone is one hour apart from each one on either side of it.

  • Pendelton Act

    Established the Civil Service Commision and set up competitive examinations for federal jobs.

  • Dawes Act

    Aimed to eliminate weakness of Native Americanlife, property, and nomadic tradition.

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Sought to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraint and monopoly. - Made monopolies illegal.

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Army goes to collect Sioux's weapons in South Dakota. An anonymus pistol shot rang out and army responded with fire.

  • Ellis Island

    The main immigration station in the U.S.

  • Reconstruction

    Wanted creation for new governments in the ten southern states that didn't ratify the fourteenth ammendment. Divided ten southern states into five military districts under a military commander.

  • Model T is invented