timeline review

By bordner

  • time zone are created

    time zones where created because ppl where going ou west on the trains

  • homestead act

    The Homestead Act was one of several United States Federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title up to 160 acrers

  • end of the civil war

    The Civil War ended in May 1865.

  • boss tweed jailed

    He was put in jail he was one of the richest man of his time

  • transcontintal rail road

    known as the Pacific Railroad

  • telephone is invented

  • Batttle of little bighorn

    known as Custer's Last Stand he led 700 men.

  • end of reconstruction

    the reconstruction was over after the civil war

  • chinese exclusion act

    The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed into law by Chester A. Arthur on May 8, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868.

  • pendleton act is passed

    The law only applied to federal government jobs: not to the state and local jobs that were the basis for political machines.

  • invention of the telegraph

  • dawes act

    gave land of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma.

  • sherman anti trust act is passed

    named for Senator John Sherman.prohibit trusts

  • battle of wounded knee

    was the last armed conflict between the Great Sioux Nation and the usa

  • Model T invented

  • ellis island opens

    an imigration island.