Period 6: 1865-1898

1st Coney Island Amusement Park

1865

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/coney-timeline/

Period 6: 1865-1898

Period: Apr 1, 1865 to Dec 15, 1898

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/ap-us-history/period-6

Civil War Ends = South Surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse

Apr 9, 1865

https://www.nps.gov/apco/learn/historyculture/the-surrender-meeting.htm

Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall at their height of power

Aug 15, 1865

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/boss-tweed

William H. Sylvis founded NLU

Aug 20, 1866

https://fiveable.me/key-terms/united-states-history-since-1865/national-labor-union?scrlybrkr=44641037

Long drives launch cattle bonanza

Jun 15, 1867

https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/gilded-age-american-west/

The Indian Peace Commission formed

Jul 20, 1867

https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ791490

US purchases AK

Oct 18, 1867

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-takes-possession-of-alaska

National Grange founded

Dec 4, 1867

https://www.nationalgrange.org/about-us/history/

Ulysses S. Grant elected president

Nov 4, 1868

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ulysses-s-grant-event-timeline

Black Kettle and Cheyenne killed by US

Nov 27, 1868

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/chief-black-kettle

Transcontinental railroad completed

May 18, 1869

https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/transcontinental-railroad

Princeton vs Rutgers in 1st intercollegiate FB game

Nov 6, 1869

Wyoming territorial legislature granted women the right to vote and to hold public office

Dec 10, 1869

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/woman-suffrage/

Knights of Labor founded

Dec 28, 1869

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/knights-of-labor

John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil

Jan 10, 1870

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/united-states-history-since-1865/standard-oil

U.S. govt implementation of Concentration Policy

Feb 8, 1870

https://library.fiveable.me/apush/unit-6/westward-expansion-social-cultural-development-1865-1898/study-guide/tjZEnBbepPcpcbtaF5eA

First Granger Laws passed

Feb 1, 1871

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/granger-laws

Great Chicago Fire

Oct 8, 1871

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/october-08/

Yellowstone National Park Act

Mar 1, 1872

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/management/yellowstoneprotectionact1872.htm

Montgomery Ward distributes 1st catalog

Aug 18, 1872

https://www.chicagohistory.org/montgomery-ward/

Credit Mobilier scandal exposed

Sep 4, 1872

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/credit-mobilier-scandal

Grant reelected president

Nov 7, 1872

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/ulysses-s-grant/

Barbed wire invented

Oct 27, 1873

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/barbed-wire

WCTU founded

Nov 18, 1874

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/womens-christian-temperance-union

Specie Resumption Act passed

Jan 14, 1875

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/specie-resumption-act-of-1875

Whiskey Ring uncovered

May 10, 1875

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/whiskey-ring

John Hopkins University creates 1st modern grad school

1876

Alexander Graham Bell receives patent for telephone

Mar 7, 1876

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/alexander-graham-bell-patents-the-telephone

Battle of the Little Bighorn

Jun 26, 1876

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/battle-of-little-bighorn

Compromise of 1877

Jan 29, 1877

https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/compromise-of-1877

National Farmers' Alliance formed

Mar 21, 1877

https://study.com/academy/lesson/farmers-alliance-origins-accomplishments-significance.html

Reconstruction Ends

Apr 24, 1877

Nez Perce War

Jun 14, 1877

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/nez-perce-tribe

Great Railroad Strike

Jul 16, 1877

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/great-railroad-strike-of-1877

Thomas Edison improved on the electric light bulb

Oct 22, 1879

https://www.history.com/news/when-edison-turned-night-into-day

Carlisle Indian School formally opened

Nov 1, 1879

Social Darwinism ideologies that emerge

1880

https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/social-darwinism

Garfield elected President

Nov 5, 1880

https://millercenter.org/president/garfield

Helen Hunt Jackson's "A Century of Dishonor"

1881

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/century-of-dishonor

Garfield is assassinated; Arthur becomes president

Jul 2, 1881

https://www.history.com/news/the-assassination-of-president-james-a-garfield

Chinese Exclusion Act passed

May 6, 1882

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/chinese-exclusion-act

Pendleton Civil Service Act passed

Jan 16, 1883

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/pendleton-civil-service-act

Brooklyn Bridge opens

May 24, 1883

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/brooklyn-bridge-opens

1st steel girder "skyscraper" built

1884

Cleveland becomes president (1st term)

Nov 7, 1884

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/grover-cleveland-first-term-event-timeline

Apache War

1886

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/geronimo-surrenders

AFL founded

1886

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/american-federation-of-labor-afl

Haymarket square riot

May 4, 1886

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/haymarket-square-riot

Interstate Commerce Act passed

Feb 4, 1887

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/interstate-commerce-act-of-1887

Dawes Severalty Act passed

Feb 8, 1887

Benjamin Harrison elected president

Nov 6, 1888

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/benjamin-harrison-event-timeline

"Gospel of Wealth" published

Jun 20, 1889

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/gospel-of-wealth

Jane Addams opens Hull House

Sep 18, 1889

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/hull-house

Alfred T Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History

1890

https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-influence-of-sea-power-upon-history-summary.html

Bison nearly extinct

1890

https://www.environmentandsociety.org/tools/keywords/near-extinction-great-plains-bison-1820-1900

Jacob Riis published How The Other Half Lives

Jan 15, 1890

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/how-the-other-half-lives

Sherman Antitrust Act passed

Apr 8, 1890

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/sherman-antitrust-act

Sherman Silver Purchase Act passed

Jul 14, 1890

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/sherman-silver-purchase-act

Battle of Wounded Knee

Dec 29, 1890

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/wounded-knee-massacre

The Populist Party founded

1891

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/populist-party

James Naismith invents basketball

Dec 21, 1891

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/basketball-invention-james-naismith

Ellis Island opens

Jan 1, 1892

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/ellis-island

General Electric formed

Apr 15, 1892

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/general-electric

Carnegie Steel Founded

Jul 1, 1892

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/carnegie-steel-company

Homestead strike

Jul 6, 1892

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/homestead-strike-of-1892

Cleveland elected to a 2nd term as president (Non-consecutive)

Nov 3, 1892

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/grover-cleveland-second-term-event-timeline

Columbian exposition of 1893

May 1, 1893

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html

Panic of 1893

May 3, 1893

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/panic-of-1893

Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis

Jul 12, 1893

https://study.com/learn/lesson/the-significance-of-the-frontier-in-american-history-turner-summary-analysis.html

Coxey's Army began its march

Mar 25, 1894

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/jacob-coxey

Pullman Strike

May 11, 1894

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/pullman-strike-of-1894

Jim Crow laws passed throughout the South

1895

https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws

Booker T Washington outlines Atlanta Compromise

Sep 18, 1895

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/atlanta-compromise-speech

Plessy v Ferguson decision

May 18, 1896

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/plessy-v-ferguson

William Jennings Bryan delivers Cross of Gold speech

Jul 9, 1896

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/cross-of-gold-speech

McKinley elected president

Nov 3, 1896

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/william-mckinley

U.S.S. Maine explodes = Start of the War w/ Spain

Feb 15, 1898

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-maine-explodes