APUSH Timeline 1865-1900

By emilym4

  • Congress authorizes transcontinental railroad

  • National Labor Union organized

  • First working transatlantic railroad

  • Grant becomes president

    He beats Seymour

  • The gold market is cornered by Fisk and Gould

  • Knights of Labor organized

  • Suez Canal completed

  • Standard Oil Company

  • NY- Tweed Scandal

  • Credit Mobilier scandal is exposed

  • Grant beats Greely for the presidency

  • Panic of 1873

  • Whiskey Ring Scandal

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Resumption Act

  • Alexandar Bell invents the telephone

  • Compromise of 1877

  • Reconstruction Ends

  • Railroad Strikes

  • Edison invents the electric light

  • Garfield wins presidency

    Beat Hancock

  • Gafield Assasinated

    Hancock becomes president

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Pendleton Act

  • Clevelad becomes president

  • Haymarket Square bombing

  • American Federation of Labor formed

  • Interstaate Commerce Act

  • Harrison becomes president

  • Billion Dollar Congress

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  • McKinley Tarriff Act

  • Homestead steel strike

  • Cleveland becomes president... again

  • Depression of 1893 begins

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson legalizes segragation