The document provides a timeline of key events from the 19th century including:
- Frederick Law Olmsted designed Central Park in New York City in the 1850s.
- The Sand Creek Massacre in 1859 resulted in the death of 150 Cheyenne people.
- Karl Marx became involved with the International Workmen's Association in 1864.
- Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, revolutionizing communication.
- By the 1880s, 90% of U.S. steel was produced using the Bessemer process.
2. Your own sub headline
Fredrick Law The Sand Creek Karl Marx
Olmsted draws up Masacre resulted becomes involved
a plan for modern in the death of in the
Central Park in 150 innocent International
New York City. Cheyenne people. Workmen’s
Asssociation.
1857 1859 1862 1864
Social Darwinsim The Homestead Andrew Carnigie
is sparked by the act offered 160 invested $40,000
publishment of acres of land free in a farm that
Chales Darwin’s to ant citizen who yielded $1 million
book “on the was the head of in dividends.
Origin of Species. household.
3. Your own sub headline
George Pullman Oliver Kelly starts
designs and the Patrons of
manufactures the Husbandry which
Pullman Sleeping would become
Car known as the
Grange
1865 1866 1867 1868
The “Negro Tammany Hall,
Calvary” aka the New York City’s
Buffalo Soldiers powerful political
are formed on Machine, makes
September 21st Wlliam M. Tweed
the head of
Tammany Hall.
4. Your own sub headline
The mail order
catalog, Ward’s
The Tweed Ring is John D. catalog llaunches. Alexander Grahm
formed. The Rockefeller’s It grew from a Bell invents the
Tweed ring is company starts single sheet to an telephone which
involved with joining competing booklet with revolutionized
patronage, graft, companies in instuctions for the way people
and kickbacks trust agreements. ordering in 10 communicate.
languages
1869 1870 1872 1876
George Jane Adams and Credit Mobilier George
Westinghouse Ellen Gates Star scandal is Armstrong Custer
invents the started a exposed by the leads the 7th
railway air break settlement house New York calvary to their
that used to called the Hull newspaper, The deaths in the
compressed air. House. Sun. Battle of Little
Bighorn.
5. Your own sub headline
By 1880, 90% of
of the US’s steel is
produced using
the bessemer
Chief Joseph process wich
leads the Nez consisted of
Perce tribe from injecting air into Sitting Bull
Thomas Alva surrenders to the
Wallowa Valley to steel to rid it of
Edison perfects US Federal
Lapwai in the carbon and other
the incandescent Government.
Idaho Territory. impurities.
lightbulb.
1877 1879 1880 1881
The gilded The Dumbbell Jacob Riis Booker T.
age begins Tenements are calloborates on Washington
bulit as a result of an article for the heads the newly
the Tenement Sun that includes founded college
House act that pictures taken of modernly called
was enacted to the slums of New Tukegee
accomadate the York City. University in
waves of Alabama
immigrants.
6. Joseph Pulitzer, a
Hungarian
Immigrant, buys
the New York Mark Twain Samuel Gompers
World and makes writes “the led the Cigar
such innovation Makers’ Union to
Adventures of
to newspapers join other craft
Huckleberry unions.
such as a large
Finn”
Sunday addition
1883 1884 1885 1886
Mugwamps is the Haymarket affair
nickname given was the
to the members aftermath of a
of the republican bombing that
party who bolted took place at a
to the Democratic labor demstration
Party to vote for at Haymarket
Grover Clevland Square in Chicago
in the 1884
election.
7. Your own sub headline
The Sherman
Antitrust Act
The Interstate made it illegal to Ellis Island
Commerce form a trust that becomes an
Comission is interfere with official admission
formed as a result free trade station to the US.
of the Intestate George Eastman It is located right
introduces his between states or
Commerce Act of with countries outside of New
1887. Kodak camera. York.
1887 1888 1890 1892
The Dawes act is The Battle of Ida B. Wells starts
The Omaha speaking out
enacted and was Wonded Knee
Platform is against lynching
intended to brings an end to
adopted by the after 3 of her
“Americanize” the Indian War.
Populist party at friends are
Native
their convention lynched on March
Americans.
in Omaha. 9.
8. Your own sub headline
William Orville and
McKinley’s Wilbur Wright
election to the develop the first
William Randolph presidency official successful flight
Hearst purchases end the Populist in an airplane at
the New York parrty. Kitty Hawk, NC.
Jounal.
1894 1895 1896 1903
Eugene V. Debs, W. E. B. Dubois Plessy v. Ferguson
who founded the became the 1st the Supreme
American Railway African- Court rules that
Uniion (ARU), Americans to segregation is
leads the ARU to graduate from legal and doesn’t
win a strike for Harvard with A violate the 14th
higher wages. Doctorate degree. amendment.
9. Your own sub headline
Debt Peonage is
ruled illegal and a
violation of the
13th amendment.
1910 1911
Angel Island
becomes an
official admission
station to the US
in San Fransico
Bay.