Review

By hfxkramer2

  • Invention of the telegraph

  • Homestead Act

    Law that gives 160 acres to any one who will live on it for 5 years.

  • End of the Civil War

    General Robert E. Lee surrenders but fighting still continued in other places.

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Crosses the continent from coast to coast

  • Boss Tweed Jailed

    Boss Tweed fled to Cuba before moving to Spain.

  • Telephone is invented

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle between the United States and Native Americans. The Native Americans lost this battle.

  • The end of Reconstruction

    Reconstruction was no longer needed after the Civil War so it ended.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    This act was made to exclude chinse from migrating to the United States.

  • Pendleton Act

    This act provided the federal goverment jobs be awarded.

  • Dawes Act

    This act was made to provide for the granting of land holdings to individual Native Americans.

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act is passed.

    This Act was based on constitutional power of congress to regulate interstate commerce.

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Faught between whites and Native Americans, no one knows why this fight broke out.

  • Ellis island opened.

    Ellis island became the nations premier immigration station.

  • Model T

  • Time Zones are created

    Each town would set thier clocks at noon when the sun reached its zenith day.