The document provides a timeline of key events from the 19th century, including the Bessemer process for steel production in 1850, the Homestead Act of 1862, the Sand Creek massacre of 1864, the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, Alexander Graham Bell's patent of the telephone in 1876, the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, the Dawes Act of 1887 aimed at assimilating Native Americans, the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, and the rise of Jim Crow laws in the 1890s mandating racial segregation. Significant political, economic, social, and technological developments are chronicled over the latter half of the 19th

1. 19th century timeline
by: Ashley Williams

2. 1850 1862 1864 1864 1866 1869 1876
Credit mobilier: a Buffalo Transcontin
Bessemer homestead act: Sand creek Telephone:in
construction soldiers: ental
process:first law enacted in massacre:1864, when March 1876.1
company formed originally railroad:
inexpensive 1862, provided a 700-man force of That first patent
in 1864 by members of railroad line
industrial process 160 acres in the Colorado Territory by Bell was the
owners of the the u.s. 10th linking the
for the mass- west to any militia attacked and master patent of
union pacific calvary Atlantic
production of citizen or destroyed a village of the telephone,
railroad, who reingnment pacific
steel from intended citizen. friendly Cheyenne from which
used to skim off of the usa coasts of the
molten pig iron and Arapaho other patents
profits to army u.s. in 1869
. The process is encamped in for electric
themselves.
named after its southeastern Colorado telephone
inventor, Territory,3 killing devices and
Henry Bessemer and mutilating an features flowed.
, who took out a estimated 70–163 2
patent on the Indians, about two-
process in thirds of whom were
1855. women and children.

3. 1876 1886 1887 1890 1890
The battle of little big The Ghost Dance Literacy test:
Haymarket Dawes act: law
horn, also known as was a refers to the
afffair:afterma
Custer's Last Stand enacted in 1887, new religious movement government
th of a bombing
and, by the intended to which was practice of testing
Native Americans that took place incorporated into
“Americanize” the literacy of
involved, as the Battle of at a labor numerous
native Americans potential citizens
the Greasy Grass , was demonstration Native American
an armed engagement by distributing belief systems. at the federal
on Tuesday
between combined forces of reservation land to According to the level, and
Lakota,
May 4, 1886, individual owners prophet Jack Wilson ( potential voters at
Northern Cheyenne and at Haymarket Wewoka's teachings,
Arapaho tribes, against Square3 in proper practice of the the state level.
the 7th Cavalry Regiment Chicago. It dance would reunite
of the United States Army began as a the living with the
. spirits of the dead and
peaceful rally bring peace,
in support of prosperity, and unity
workers to native peoples
striking for an
throughout the region
eight-hour day.

4. 1890 1890
Grandfather clause:A a
The Wounded situation in which an old
Knee Massacre rule continues to apply to
some existing situations,
occurred on
while a new rule will
December 29, apply to all future
1890,4 near situations. Frequently, the
exemption is limited; it
Wounded Knee may extend for a set
Creek (Lakota: period of time, or it may
Čhaŋkpé Ópi be lost under certain
circumstances. For
Wakpála) on the example, a
Lakota "grandfathered power
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation be exempt
plant" might
from new, more restrictive
in South Dakota, pollution laws, but those
rules would apply if plant
USA
were expanded

5. 1890 1890 1890 1892 1894 1896
Jim crow laws:They The Omaha Pullman Plessy vs. fergusona
Ghost Sherman antitrust
mandated de jure Platform was strike:nationwide landmark
dance:a act:prohibits certain
racial segregation in all the party conflict between the United States Supreme
business activities that
new religious movement
public facilities in program new decision in the
which was reduce competition in
Southern states of the adopted at the American Railway Union jurisprudence of the
incorporate the marketplace, and
former Confederacy, formative (ARU) and railroads United States,
d into requires the
with, starting in 1890, a convention of that occurred in the upholding the
numerous United States federal
"separate but equal" the United States in summer constitutionality of
government to
Native American
status for Populist (or People's) Party shut down
1894. It state laws requiring
belief investigate and pursue
African Americans. held in much of the nation's racial segregation in
trusts, companies, and
systems . Omaha, Nebraska freight and passenger public facilities under
organizations suspected
on July 4, 1892. the doctrine of "
traffic west of Detroit.
of being in violation.
separate but equal."1

6. 1897
1900s
Ragtime :an original
musical genre which Vaudervile:a
enjoyed its peak theatrical genre of
popularity between variety entertainment
1897 and 1918.2 Its popular in the North
main characteristic trait America, England,
is its syncopated, or Australia and New
"ragged," rhythm.2 It Zealand from the
began as dance music early 1880s until the
in the red-light districts
early 1930s.
of African American
communities in St. Louis
and New Orleans years
before being published
as popular sheet music
for piano.
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8. 1893 1894 1916
Boilerplate toiled in
Mechanical Marvel
the service of men Boilerplate served
Boilerplate was
by assisting in admirably in a series
unveiled at the 1893
Professor Campion’s of conflicts including
Columbian
voyage to the South the Spanish-
Exposition by American War, the
Pole aboard the
inventor Professor
Euterpe. The Japanese-Russian
Archibald Campion
expedition was the War, and World War
to “resolve the
first (and last) robot- I.
conflicts of nations
assisted voyage to
without the deaths of
the South Pole.
men.”
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