The Events of the Century

By ewingert

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

  • Oregon Trail

    Oregon Trail

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

    Battle of Fort Sumter

  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

  • The Second Battle of Bull Run

    The Second Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

  • Slavery is abolished

    Slavery is abolished

  • President Lincoln's Murder

    President Lincoln's Murder

  • Ku Klux Klan founded

    Ku Klux Klan founded

  • The Women's Christian Temperance Union founded

    The Women's Christian Temperance Union founded

  • Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

  • Reconstruction Ends

    Reconstruction Ends

  • Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb

    Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb

  • Orville Wright makes the first powered airplane flight

    Orville Wright makes the first powered airplane flight

  • Pure Food & Drug Act passed

    Pure Food & Drug Act passed

  • Henry Ford made the Model T

    Henry Ford made the Model T

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  • 18th Amendment passed

    18th Amendment passed

  • Women's right to vote

    Women's right to vote