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US History Timeline

1850 1862

Longhorn:

During the California Gold Rush, some hardy cattlemen on horseback braved a long trek, or drive, through a Aacah territory and across the desert to $25-$125 a head for their cattle.

Homestead Act:

Law enacted in 1862, that provided 160 acres in the West to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household and would cultivate the land for 5 years.

Soddy:

Warm in the winter and cool in the summer.Soddies were small, however, and offered little light or air. They were havens for snakes, insects, and other pests. Although fireproof, they leaked continuously when it rained.

1654

1864

Sand Creek Massacre:

Killed over 150 inhabitants, mostly women and children.

1866

Buffalo Soldiers:

Originally members of the US 10th cavalry regiment of the US Army.

1868

Sitting Bull:

Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux, never signed Treaty of Fort Laramie. Treaty of Laramie was forced on the leaders of Sioux.

Great Plains:

The new railroads across the plains brought hunters who killed all the bison.

1870

Grange:

An organization of farmers, original purpose was to provide a social outlet and an educational forum for isolated farm families.

1870 1874

George Armstrong Custer:

Reported that the black hills had gold “from the grass roots down”, a gold rush was on.

Oliver Kelly;

Started the Patrons of Husbandry, an organization for farmers that became popularly known as the Grange.

1876

Battle of Little Big Horn:

The fight between Cheyanne and Arapaho tribes against the 7th cavalry regiment of the US army.

1876

1887

Dawes Act:

Congress passed this act in 1887 aiming to “Americanize” the Native Americans.

Wounded Knee:

The 7th cavalry rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.

1890 1892

Omaha Platform:

The party program adopted the formative convention of the populist party held in Omaha, Nebraska.

1892

“cross of gold speech”:

Delivered by William Jennings Bryan at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

1890 1890 1890 1894 1901

Vanderbilt Family:

An American family of railroad notability who became socially prominent during the first half of the 19th century.

Collective Bargaining:

Negation between representatives of labor and management to reach written agreements on wages, hours, and working conditions.

Sherman Anti-trust Act:

Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between free states or other countries.

Monopoly:

Complete control over its industry’s population, wages, or prices.

Eugene Vs. Debs:

Attempted to form such an industrial union-the American railway union.

1870

John D. Rockefeller:

Established the standard Oil Company who took a different approach to mergers.

Andrew Carneige:

Was busy managing the money he earned individends that he happily left his job at the Pennsylviana Railroad.

Trust:

Not legal mergers, however, the companies were entitled to dividens on profits earned by the trust.

Social Darwinism:

Book “Origin of Species” was published. Discussed his observations that some individuals of a species flourish and pass their traits onto the next generations while others do not.

Alexander Graham Bell:

Unveiled the most dramatic invention, the telephone, along with Thomas Watson.

1865 18711859 1876

1876 1876 1884 1885 1886

Telephone:

Most dramatic invention unveiled by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson.

Thomas Alva Edison:

Became a pioneer on the new industrial frontier when he established the world’s first research lab in Menio Park, New Jersey.

Culture Shock:

The personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country.

Mugwumps:

Republican political activist who bolted from the US Republican Party by supporting the Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the US presidential election.

Samuel Gompers:

Led the cigar makers’ international union to join with other craft unions.

1860

Gilded Age:

The period following the Civil War.

Jacob Riis:

A Danish American social reformer “muckraking” journalist and social documentary photographer.

Tammany Hall:

NYC’s powerful democratic political machine.

1868 1870 1870

Civil Service:

Government administration jobs should go to the most qualified persons.

1875

Graft:

The legal use of political influence for personal gain.

1869 1890 1879 1884 1885

George Westinghouse:

And American entrepreneur engineer who invented the railway air break and was a pioneer of the electrical industry.

Settlement House:

Reformers established this houses community centers in slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to people in the areas especially immigrants.

Dumbbell Tenements:

Law required that every inhabitable room have a window opening.

Kickback:

Illegal payments for their services enriched the political machines and individual politicians.

Political Machine:

Offered services to voters and businesses in exchange for political or financial support.

1889 1940 1890 1892

Urbanization:

Growth of cities technological boom in the 19th century.

Jane Adams:

A pioneer settlement worker founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace.

Angel Island:

Asians, primaraly Chinese, arriving on the West Coast gained administration here in San Francisco Bay.

Melting Pot:

A mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together by abandoning their native language and customs.

Ellis Island:

Immigration station.

1889

1800

Ragtime:

A blend of African American spiritualists and European musical forms.

Grandfather Clause:

Several Southern states added this to their constitutions, stated that even if a man failed the literacy test or could not afford the poll tax he was still entitled to vote.

Fredrick Law Olmsted:

A landscape architect who spear headed the movement for planned urban parks.

Vaudeville:

Performances that included song, dance, juggling, slap stick comedy and sometimes chorus lines of female performances.

186718571866

Ida B. Wells:

Born in slavery, moved to Memphis. Worked as a teacher, later became an editor of a local paper.

1869

1881 1883 1886 1888 1890

Booker T. Washington:

The prominent African American educator believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful neighbor skills.

Joseph Pultizer:

A Hungarian immigrant who pioneered popular inventions.

Haymarket Affair:

Refers to the aftermath of a bombing that took place at the labor demonstrations.

George Eastman:

Developed a series of more convenient alternatives to the heavy glass plates previously used.

Robber Barons:

Businessmen used to amass their wealth.

1903 1895 1895 1896 1905

Orville and Wilbur Wright:

Brothers bicycle manufacturers from Dayton, Ohio. Experimented with new inventions.

Literacy Test:

The test people had to take to be able to vote.

William Randolph Hearst:

Purchased the NY morning journal.

Plessy vs. Ferguson:

Supreme Court ruled that the super intendant of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the 14th amendment.

WEB Dubois:

The first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard.

Sources:

Thank you to Google Images and Wikipedia for all my pictures and some of my definitions.

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