The Events of the Century By ewingert 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1841 Oregon Trail 1861 Battle of Fort Sumter May 20, 1862 Homestead Act Aug 28, 1862 The Second Battle of Bull Run Sep 17, 1862 Battle of Antietam Jan 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1865 Slavery is abolished Apr 14, 1865 President Lincoln's Murder Dec 24, 1865 Ku Klux Klan founded 1874 The Women's Christian Temperance Union founded 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone 1877 Reconstruction Ends 1878 Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb 1903 Orville Wright makes the first powered airplane flight 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act passed 1908 Henry Ford made the Model T 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 1919 18th Amendment passed 1920 Women's right to vote
