US history

By alazaynelson16

  • • Homestead Act (1862)

    • Homestead Act (1862)
    adult citizen could claim 160 acres of land who had never borne arms against the us government

  • • Transcontinental Railroad Completed (1869)

  • • Industrialization Begins to Boom

  • • Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall (1871)

  • • Telephone Invented (1876)

    • Telephone Invented (1876)
    Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876.

  • • Reconstruction Ends (1877)

    • Reconstruction Ends (1877)
    he Reconstruction era was the period in American history that lasted from 1863 to 1877
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    : Gilded Age (1877- 1890)

    rapid economic growth

  • • Light Bulb Invented (1878)

    • Light Bulb Invented (1878)
    Thomas edison invented the light bulb

  • • 3rd Wave of Immigration (1880)

    • 3rd Wave of Immigration (1880)
    The third wave, between 1880 and 1914, brought over 20 million European immigrants to the United States, an average of 650,000 a year at a time when the United States had 75 million residents.

  • • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

    • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
    he Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882

  • • Pendleton Act (1883)

    • Pendleton Act (1883)
    The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law passed by the 47th United States Congress and signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur on January 16, 1883

  • • Dawes Act (1887)

    • Dawes Act (1887)
    authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands

  • • Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

  • • Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth (1889)

    • Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth (1889)
    The Gospel of Wealth, is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.

  • • Klondike Gold Rush (1890)

    • Klondike Gold Rush (1890)
    A migration by an estimated 100,000 prosectors to the klondike region

  • • Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

    • Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
    The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a United States antitrust law that regulates competition among enterprises that was passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison.

  • • Homestead Steel Labor Strike (1892)

    • Homestead Steel Labor Strike (1892)
    industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892

  • • Pullman Labor Strike (1894)

    • Pullman Labor Strike (1894)
    The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States that lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894