1st Semester Review

By hfxmiller26

  • Invention of the telegraph

  • Homeland Act

    The Homeland Act offered 160 acres of land to settlers.

  • End of Civil War

    more than 600,000 soldiers died at the end of the war.

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Linked California and Nebraska together.

  • Boss Tweed

    Was part of a political machine and was part of part of the Tweed Ring.

  • Telephone is invented

  • Battle of Little Big Horn

    General George Custer died during this battle were the Native Amaricans.

  • End of Reconstruction

    Came with the compromise of 1877.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Excluded Chinese for admitints to U.S.

  • Time Zpnes are created

    On Cotinental America 4 times zones were created eac an hour apart.

  • Pendleton Act is passed

    This created civil secvice tests.

  • Dawes Act

    This act abolished Native American tribes.

  • Sherman Anti-Trust act is passed

    This act prohibited monoplies.

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Last battle between the indians and americans.

  • Ellis Island Opens

    Opened in New York City, was an immigration station.

  • Model T invented