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The document provides a timeline of key events from the 19th century including: 1) The Homestead Act of 1862 which encouraged western expansion and strained Native American lands. 2) The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 where Colonel Chivington's troops killed over 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho, mostly women and children. 3) The founding of the American Federation of Labor by Samuel Gompers in 1886 to represent workers' interests. 4) The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 where the U.S. Army killed 300 unarmed Lakota Sioux, including women and children.
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- 1. 19th Century Timeline 1850 1862 1864 Bessemer Homestead Act- a U.S. law that Sand Creek Massacre- Most of Process- A cheap provided 160 acres in the west to the Cheyenne had peacefully and effective any citizen or intended citizen who returned to Colorado’s San process for making was head of household and would Creek reserve for winter but steel. cultivate the land for five years; a General S.R. Curtis sent a law whose passage led to record telegram to militia colonel John numbers of U.S. settlers claiming Chivington that read “I want no private property which previously peace till the Indians suffer had been reserved by treaty and more.” So Chivington and his by tradition for Native American troops descended on the nomadic dwelling and use; the Cheyenne and Arapho camped same law strengthened in 1889 to at Sand Creek; the attack at encourage individuals to exercise dawn on November 29 killed their private property rights and over 150 inhabitants, mostly develop homesteads out of the women and children. vast government.
- 2. 1866 1867 1869 1870 Buffalo Soldiers- Oliver Kelley- On National Farmer’s John D. Transcontinenta they were the November 15, he Alliance- It was started l Railroad- a Rockefeller- He original members of laid the groundwork by the Grange and was railroad line founded the the U.S. 10th Cavalry to build a new an agrarian economic linking the Standard Oil Regiment of the foundation for movement; farmers Company and Atlantic and U.S. Army formed American agriculture joined together to Pacific coasts of aggressively ran it on September 21 at through the decrease debt, poverty, the U.S. until he officially Fort Leavenworth organization of the and low crop prices retired. Kansas. Grange, of which he through education, was the first economic cooperation secretary. and organizing, and asserting their power in electoral politics.
- 3. Telephone- most Battle of Little Big dramatic invention Horn- an armed unveiled by engagement Alexander Graham between combined Belland and Thomas forces of Lakota, Watson; it opened Northern Cheyenne the way for a and Arapho tribes worldwide against the 7th communications Cavalry Regiment of network the U.S. Army. 1872 1876 1877 1878 Credit Mobilier- the Nez Perce- Native Gilded Age- the Jim Crow Laws- exposed deception American people period following the state and local laws by the Union Pacific living in the Pacific civil war. The term in the U.S. that of over charging Northwest region of was coined by mandated racial construction costs to the United States writers Mark Twain segregation in all taxpayers and who got in a war and Charles Dudley public facilities in manipulating the with the U.S. Warner in “The southern states of share prices of Government. Gilded Age: A Tale the former Crédit Mobilier of of Today” satirizing Confederacy. America. an era of social problems hidden by a thin layer of gold.
- 4. Interstate Commerce Commission- a regulatory body in the U.S. created by the Haymarket Affair- Samuel Gompers- interstate commerce the aftermath of a he founded the act. The original bombing that took American Federation purpose was to regulate place at a labor of Labor and served railroads to ensure fair demonstration on as that rates, to eliminate rate Tuesday May 4th at organization’s discrimination, and to Haymarket Square president until his regulate other aspects in Chicago. death. of common carriers. 1884 1886 1887 Eugene V. Mugwumps- Colored Farmer’s Dawes Act- broke William Randolph Debs- he was Republican Alliance- a group of up reservations Hearst- he was an a member of political activists black farmers who and gave some of American the Democratic who bolted from formed their own the reservation newspaper publisher Party and was the U.S. alliance to fill their land to individual who built the elected as a Republican Party needs. Native Americans- nation’s largest Democrat to by supported 160 acres to each newspaper chain the Indiana Grover Cleveland. head of household and whose methods General and 80 acres to profoundly Assembly. each unmarried influenced American adult. journalism.
- 5. Ghost Dance- a Sherman Antitrust religious movement Act- First measure which was passed by the U.S. incorporated into Congress to prohibit numerous Native trusts. American belief systems. Sherman Antitrust Booker T. Washington- Act- this act made it he was the dominant illegal to form a trust leader in the African that interfered with American community in free trade between the United States. states or with other countries 1888 1890 1891 George Eastman- Populist- a member Wounded Knee- On he was an American December 28, the Seventh of a United States innovator and Cavalry rounded up about 350 political party formed entrepreneur who starving and freezing Sioux primarily to founded the represent agrarian and took them to a camp at Eastman Kodak Wounded Knee Creek in interests and to Company and South Dakota. The soldiers advocate the free invented roll film coinage of silver and made them give up their which was the basis weapons. A shot was fired and government control for motion picture within minutes, the Seventh of monopolies film. Cavalry slaughtered 300 unarmed Native Americans including several children; the soldiers left the bodies to freeze on the ground.
- 6. 1892 1894 1896 1897 Omaha Platform- Plessy vs. “Cross of Gold Ragtime- an Pullman Strike- a The party program Ferguson- a case in Speech”- original nationwide conflict adopted at the which the supreme delivered by musical genre between the new formative court ruled that William Jennings that had a American Railway convention of the separation of the Bryan at the syncopated or Union and railroads Populist Party races in public National “ragged” that occurred in the held in Omaha, accommodations Convention in rhythm. United States. Nebraska on July was legal, thus Chicago on July 4th. establishing the 9th. In the speech “separate but equal” he supported doctrine. bimetallism.
- 7. 1903 1909 1917 Orville and Wilbur W.E.B. Dubois- one Literacy Test- the Wright- they built of the co-founders of government practice the world’s first the National of testing the literacy successful airplane Association for the of potential citizens and the first Advancement of at the federal level, controlled, powered Colored People. and potential voters and sustained at the state level. heavier-than-air human flight on December 17th.