The document provides a timeline from 1850-1901 summarizing important people, events, inventions, and developments in the United States. Some of the key events covered include the Bessemer process, the Homestead Act, the Transcontinental Railroad, Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, the Wright brothers' first flight, and Mark Twain's writing of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A variety of social, political, economic, and technological advances during this period are highlighted.

1. Rylan Lovejoy

2. Bessemer
Process: developed
independently by Civil service:
Henry Bessemer. A govenrment
admin, should be
Social darwinism: the
tichnique that theory of biological
involves injecting air appointed to the
evolution it grew out of
into molten iron to best qualified and
the book published in 59
remove impurities. not by political
from english naturalist.
views.
1850 1852
1850 1855 1859
Soddy: A house Andrew
made of mud and Carnegie: he
such. It made became a
great insulation impressive worker
but aloud no air for the continental
rail road, he
flow or light.
moved up the
Making it a place ranks until he
for bugs and became his own
snakes wealthy man.

3. Sand Creek
Homestead Act: Massacre: one of
the most tragic
offering 160 acres
events in the US
of free land to any
military when the us
citizen or intended
attacked and killed
citizen who was
the Cheynne and
head of the house
killed over 150
hold.
women
1857 1862 1862 1862 1864
Fredrick Law Buffalo Soldiers:
Olstmed: name given to
Exoduster: African Americans
Spear headed
settlers, African
the movement commissioned by
Americans, who
plan for urban congress after the
moved from the
parks, and civil war to patrol
post-
helped draw up the midwest.
reconstruction
the greensward
south to kansas.
plan which is
now timesquare.

4. Sitting Bull:
Oliver Kelley: leader of Tammany Hall:
Hunkpapa Sioux powerful
started the patrons
never signed a democratic political
of husbandry which
treaty and machine. That built
was an
expected to keep a lot of money for
organization to help
hunting on their their political view.
support farmers.
land.
1866 1867 1867 1868 1868
Long Horns: Gilded Age: refers
sturdy short to the era of the rapid
tempered economic and
breeds. That ere population growth
accustomed to post civil war. Every
the draw grass man was capable or
lands of already was wealthy.
southern Spain.

5. Trust: turn their stock over
to a group of trustees-
people who ran the separate
Transcontinental companies as one large
railroad: A rail corporation to get dividines.
road line linking the Trust are not legal mergers
Alantic coast and although Rockefeller used
Pacific coast of the them to take over the oil
United States, industry.
completed in 1869
1869 1869 1870 1870 1870
Tweed Ring: Boss tweed
was head of Tammany Long Drive: the John D.
hall. He controlled the overland transport Rockefeller:
district attorney, the of the animals. established the
police, the courts, Often lasted standard oil company,
and most of the about three and he took differ out
newspapers. months. looks on mergers that
would make him a lot
of money. By 1870 his
company controlled
90% of the refining
business.

6. Southern Colored Farmers
Alliance: largest Alliance: about
alliance out of 250,000 blacks
the farmers belonged to this
alliance. Over 4 group. Some
million members promoted non
mostly white segregated farms.
farmers.
1871 1872 1873 1873 1873
National Grange: original Graft: the illegal
Farmers purpose was to use of political
Alliance: an provide a social influence for
organized outlet and an personal gain,
movement of educational forum after a political
farmers that for isolated farm machine got its
flourished in the families. candidate into
70’s. office.

7. Segregation: a Great Plains: the
racial separation grassy lands
in south states extended through
were whites and the west-central
blacks were parts of the united
separated I public states and
or private Canada.
facilities.
1875 1875 1876 1876 1876
Literacy Test: George
was something The Battle of Little
Armstrong
south could Bighorn: Montana near
Custer: reported
make voters the little bighorn battle
that the black hills
take usually between a large calvary
had gold in them,
balcks to find and Indian tribes. The
and also lead the
out if they were tribes were highly under
battle of little
even eligible to estimated by George
bighorn.
vote. Custer who’s men were
killed.

8. Telephone:
Alexander Graham created by
Bell: him and Thomas Thomas and
Watson came up with Alexander which
the creation of the opened up
telephone opening up worldwide
worldwide communication
communication. that aloud mass
production and
selling.
1876 1877 1877
1876 1876
Thomas Alva Chief Joseph: Nez Perce: their
Edison: A leader of nez tribe was forced
pioneer on the perce and his tribe to leave their
new industrial was forced off of native land the
frontier and their land.
Wallowa which
perfected the
violated the
incandescent
light bulb treaty of 1855.

9. Homesteader:
Wild Bill Hickok: settlers of the free Ragtime:a
served as a scout land offered by the mixture of African
and spy during government. To American and
the civil war and the head of the European musical
later became a house hold. forms.
marshall.
1879 1880 1881 1883 1883
Booker T. Assimilation: a
Washington: he plan under which
believed that Native Americans
racism would stop would give up their
once blacks beliefs and way of
proved them life and adopt the
selves to be just whites culture.
as capable as
learning and
acquiring skills.

10. Dawes Act: Urbanization:
passed aiming to the growth of
" Americanize" cities came as an
the Native effect of the
Americans. It technological
broke up there boom in the
land and gave Northeast and
them to individual west regions.
Natives.
1886 1887 1888 1889 1890
Samuel Jane Adams:
George Eastman: one of the most
Gompers: lead
developed influential
of the cigar
alternative ways to members of the
makers
produce film by settlement house
International
eliminationg the movement
union to join
need to carry founded Chicago 5
with other craft
around dark rooms Hull house.
unions.
to develope films
and instead just
sending them to a
studio1889

11. Sherman
Ghost Dance: Native
Antitrust act:
Americans turned to
made it illegal to
prophet and believed
form a trust that
that if the performed the
interferred with
ghost dance it would
free trade between
states or with other restore their way of life.
countries
1890 1890 1890 1890 1890
Settlement House: Wounded knee:
KIckback: A disgraceful
a few reformers,
workers 'kickback" community centers in moment when the
a portion of slum neighborhoods 7th calvary
earnings to the that provided slaughtered women
machine, illegal assistance to people and children and
payments for their in the area especially left there corps to
service service immigrants freeze
enriched individual
politicians.

12. Ellis Island: hot
spot for Mail Catalog
Scab: hired
immigration only Order: brought
workers to break William
about 2% were merchandise to
up strikers and McKinley: 25th
denied entry. They small towns to
keep the workers president
had to pass place orders to be
organized. They nominated by the
physical ship to them. This
were armed and republicans and
examination and idea exploded in
not liked. just a year going one of his main
have documents
checked. from one sheet to focuses was on
a booklet. the gold rush.
1892 1892 1893 1893 1896
ohmaha
Platform: was
a party program.
It dealt with the
protection of
farmers alliance.

13. Jim Crow Laws: Angel Island:
Plessy VS Fugerson: after a popular old
is a land mark in the primarily Chinese
minstrel song that arriving on the
supreme court ruling ended in words
about african americans west coast gained
jump jim crow. administration
segregation wfhen on These laws were
the issue that egual here. It was a
set to segregate immigration hot
rights or everyone. blacks and white. spot.
1896 1896 1896 1897 1898
Cross of Gold Bimetallism:
Speech: monetary system
William in which the
Jennings Bryan government gave
gives a speech citizens either
of gold which
gold or silver in
addresses the
gold rush, and exchange for
how it is divined paper currency
by a gold cross. or checks.

14. Orville and Wilbur
Wright: bicycle
manufactures from
Dayton Ohio who
experimented with
new engines
powerful enough to
create flight.
1900 1901
Mark Twain: a
famous author who
inspired many other
writers to write about
the actual events of
the time with
adventure. For
example his
american classic “
The Adventures
Huckleberry Finn”.

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