-
Homestead Act
This Act allowed for former slaves, women, and immigrants to claim 160 acres of land for a meager 10 dollar filing fee. Many of these people lived in small sad homes that offered little light or air and attracted snakes and insects. -
Standard Oil Founding
John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil and became and industrialist, that by 1877, owned and processed 90% of all oil business in America at the time. -
Death of James Fisk
Stokes confronted Fisk in New York City on January 6, 1872, in the Grand Central Hotel and shot him twice, in the arm and abdomen. A relatively young man of 36, Fisk died of the abdominal wound the next morning after giving a dying declaration identifying Stokes as the killer. -
"The Long Depression"
This depression occurred and an inflation act to stop it which was quickly meet with a veto from Congress. This created more economical problems that would continue until business began to boom again. -
End of Whisky Ring Scandal
The ring was an American scandal, broken in May 1875, involving the diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors. Whiskey distillers bribed Treasury officials to increase profits and evade taxes. -
Thomas Edison - Light Bulb
Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, the first practical electric incandescent lamp. The light bulb creates light when electrical current passes through the metal filament wire, heating it to a high temperature until it glows. -
1880 Jim crow laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Southern laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat–dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction period.Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965. -
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was given to the U.S. from france as a gift for their collaboration during the American Revolution. It was assembled in france, then disassembled and shipped to the U.S. -
Beginning Of Carnegie Steel
Carnegie Steel Company was a steel-producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century. -
Plessy VS. Ferguson
Trial solidifying that segregation did not violate the U.S. Constitution, as long as both facilities were built equally. Later the notion of "Separate but Equal" arises.