1. US History Timeline
1850 1654 1862
Soddy: Longhorn: Homestead Act:
Warm in the winter During the Law enacted in
and cool in the California Gold 1862, that provided
summer.Soddies Rush, some hardy 160 acres in the
were small, cattlemen on West to any citizen
however, and horseback braved a or intended citizen
offered little light long trek, or drive, who was head of
or air. They were through a Aacah the household and
havens for snakes, territory and would cultivate the
insects, and other across the desert land for 5 years.
pests. Although to $25-$125 a
fireproof, they head for their
leaked continuously cattle.
when it rained.

2. Buffalo Soldiers: Great Plains:
Originally members The new railroads
of the US 10th across the plains
cavalry regiment of brought hunters
the US Army. who killed all the
bison.
1864 1866 1868 1870
Sand Creek Sitting Bull:
Massacre:
Leader of the
Killed over 150 Hunkpapa Sioux,
inhabitants, mostly never signed
women and Treaty of Fort
children. Laramie. Treaty of
Laramie was forced
on the leaders of
Sioux.

3. 1870 1874 1876 1876
Grange: Oliver Kelly; Battle of Little Big
George Armstrong Horn:
An organization of Custer: Started the
farmers, original Patrons of The fight between
purpose was to Reported that the Husbandry, an Cheyanne and
provide a social black hills had gold organization for Arapaho tribes
outlet and an “from the grass farmers that against the 7th
educational forum roots down”, a gold became popularly cavalry regiment of
for isolated farm rush was on. known as the the US army.
families. Grange.

4. Wounded Knee:
The 7th cavalry
“cross of gold
rounded up about
speech”:
350 starving and
freezing Sioux and Delivered by William
took them to a Jennings Bryan at
camp at Wounded the Democratic
Knee Creek in National Convention
South Dakota. in Chicago.
1887 1890 1892 1892
Dawes Act: Omaha Platform:
The party program
Congress passed
adopted the
this act in 1887
aiming to formative
convention of the
“Americanize” the
populist party held
Native Americans.
in Omaha,
Nebraska.

5. Collective
Bargaining:
Negation between
representatives of
labor and
Eugene Vs. Debs:
management to
reach written Attempted to form
agreements on such an industrial
wages, hours, and union-the American
working conditions. railway union.
1890 1890 1890 1894 1901
Vanderbilt Family: Sherman Anti-trust Monopoly:
An American family Act: Complete control
of railroad Made it illegal to over its industry’s
notability who form a trust that population, wages,
became socially interfered with or prices.
prominent during free trade between
the first half of free states or
the 19th century. other countries.

6. Social Darwinism:
Book “Origin of
Species” was
published.
John D.
Discussed his Alexander Graham
Rockefeller:
observations that Bell:
some individuals of Established the
a species flourish standard Oil Unveiled the most
and pass their Company who took dramatic invention,
traits onto the a different the telephone,
next generations approach to along with Thomas
while others do not. mergers. Watson.
1859 1865 1870 1871
1876
Andrew Carnegie: Trust:
Was busy managing Not legal mergers,
the money he however, the
earned individends companies were
that he happily left entitled to dividens
his job at the on profits earned
Pennsylvania by the trust.
Railroad.

7. Mugwumps:
Republican political
activist who bolted
from the US
Republican Party by
Telephone: supporting the Samuel Gompers:
Most dramatic Democratic Led the cigar
invention unveiled candidate Grover makers’
by Alexander Cleveland in the US international union
Graham Bell and presidential to join with other
Thomas Watson. election. craft unions.
1876 1876 1884 1885 1886
Thomas Alva Culture Shock:
Edison:
The personal
Became a pioneer disorientation a
on the new person may feel
industrial frontier when experiencing
when he an unfamiliar way
established the of life due to
world’s first immigration or a
research lab in visit to a new
Menio Park, New country.
Jersey.

8. Civil Service:
Government
Tammany Hall:
administration jobs
NYC’s powerful should go to the
democratic political most qualified
machine. persons.
1860 1868 1870 1870 1875
Gilded Age: Jacob Riis: Graft:
The period A Danish American The legal use of
following the Civil social reformer political influence
War. “muckraking” for personal gain.
journalist and social
documentary
photographer.

9. Settlement House:
Reformers
established this Kickback:
houses community Illegal payments
centers in slum for their services
neighborhoods that enriched the
provided assistance political machines
to people in the and individual
areas especially politicians.
immigrants.
1869 1890 1879 1884 1885
George Dumbbell Political Machine:
Westinghouse: Tenements:
Offered services
And American Law required that to voters and
entrepreneur every inhabitable businesses in
engineer who room have a window exchange for
invented the opening. political or financial
railway air break support.
and was a pioneer
of the electrical
industry.

10. Jane Adams:
A pioneer Melting Pot:
settlement worker A mixture of people
founder of Hull of different
House in Chicago, cultures and races
public philosopher, who blended
sociologist, author, together by
and leader in woman abandoning their
suffrage and world native language and
peace. customs.
1889 1889 1940 1890 1892
Urbanization: Angel Island:
Ellis Island:
Growth of cities Asians, primaraly
Immigration
technological boom Chinese, arriving on
station.
in the 19th century. the West Coast
gained
administration here
in San Francisco
Bay.

11. Fredrick Law
Olmsted:
A landscape Ida B. Wells:
Ragtime: architect who Born in slavery,
spear headed the moved to Memphis.
A blend of African
movement for Worked as a
American
planned urban teacher, later
spiritualists and
parks. became an editor
European musical
forms. of a local paper.
1800 1866 1857 1867 1869
Vaudeville: Grandfather
Clause:
Performances that
included song, Several Southern
dance, juggling, slap states added this
stick comedy and to their
sometimes chorus constitutions,
lines of female stated that even if
performances. a man failed the
literacy test or
could not afford
the poll tax he was
still entitled to
vote.

12. Booker T.
Washington:
The prominent
Haymarket Affair:
African American
educator believed Refers to the
Robber Barons:
that racism would aftermath of a
end once blacks bombing that took Businessmen used
acquired useful place at the labor to amass their
neighbor skills. demonstrations. wealth.
1881 1883 1886 1888 1890
Joseph Pultizer: George Eastman:
A Hungarian Developed a series
immigrant who of more convenient
pioneered popular alternatives to the
inventions. heavy glass plates
previously used.

13. Orville and Wilbur
Wright: WEB Dubois:
Brothers bicycle William Randolph The first African
manufacturers Hearst: American to
from Dayton, Ohio. receive a doctorate
Purchased the NY
Experimented with from Harvard.
morning journal.
new inventions.
1903 1895 1895 1896 1905
Literacy Test:
Plessy vs. Ferguson:
The test people Supreme Court
had to take to be ruled that the
able to vote.
super intendant of
races in public
accommodations
was legal and did
not violate the 14th
amendment.

14. Sources:
 Thank you to Google Images and
Wikipedia for all my pictures and
some of my definitions.
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