US so far

  • Period: to

    Civil War( Beginning to End)

  • Lincoln's Assassination

  • 13th Amendment

  • Period: to

    Reconstruction

  • 14th Amendment

  • Transcontinental Railroad completed

  • 15th Amendment

  • Hiram R. Revels becomes first black senator

  • The Panic of 73' (starts depression)

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

  • Compromise makes Hayes president, ends reconstruction

  • Tuskegee Institute founded

  • Tennessee passes law segregating railroad cars (other states soon follow)

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • The Haymarket affair/massacre

  • American Federation of Labor created

  • Dawes Act

  • The Chicago World's Fair (aka Columbian Exposition)

  • Lynchings peak in United States (1890s)

  • The Panic of 93 (leads to depression)

  • McKinley election

  • Plessy v. Ferguson, rules "separate but equal" and Jim Crow segregation laws are legal

  • US Annexation of the Philippines

  • McKinley assassination