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Invention of the Telegraph
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Homestead Act
The homestead act gave 160 acres of the land to settlers who have paid all of there filing fees and they had to have lived on the lands for five years. -
End of Reconstruction
The period of rebuilding. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
250 soldiers faced the Sioux and Cheyenne. It was the biggest win for the Indians. -
Transcontinental Railroad
A railroad that connected the east and the west of the United States that made traveling easier. -
Boss Tweed
Boss Tweed was the leader of the political machine in New York City. -
Invention of the Telephone
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Chinese Exclusion Act
A law that has prohibited Chinese from entering the United States for 10 years. -
Time Zones
Four time zones in the United States that where an hour past the next. -
Pendleton Act Passed
Set up examinators of federal jobs. -
Dawes Act
The law wanted to eliminate Americans as the two weekness of Native American Life. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Act passed so that there are no more monopolies, and one store cannot own the entire trade buissness. -
Wounded Knee
When someone shot it started the fighting and more than 200 Sioux and 25 soldiers were killed. -
Ellis Island
Where immigrant would go to check in to the United States. -
Invention of the Model T