This document provides a US history timeline from 1850-1910 that highlights several important events, people, and developments. It summarizes the Bessemer Process for cheap steel production in 1859, the Homestead Act of 1862, the Transcontinental Railroad completion in 1869, and John D. Rockefeller founding Standard Oil in 1870. It also mentions Jacob Riis exposing NYC poverty in 1870, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone invention in 1876, and Sitting Bull surrendering to the federal government in 1881.

1. US HISTORY TIMELINE

2. Bessemer Process,
A cheap and
efficient process for
making steel
1850 1859 1862 1862 1864
Homestead Act, Homesteaders, The attack at dawn
Social Darwinism, A offering 160 acres Settlers on this free on November
economic and social of land free to any land 29,1864 killed over
Philosophy citizen or intended 150 inhabitants,
citizen who was mostly women and
head of the children.
household

3. Transcontinental
Railroad- A railroad
line linking the
Atlantic and Pacific
coasts of the US
1867 1868 1869 1870 1870
John D. Rockefeller, Grange, Provide a
Oliver Kelley, Tammy Hall, NY’s
Started the patrons powerful political Rockefellers social outlet and
educational forum
of Husbandry Machine Standard Oil
for isolated farm
Company
families

4. Jacob Riis, Used his Alexander Graham
talent to expose the Bell, Opened the
Tweed Ring, A hardship of NY’s way for a worldwide
group of corrupt poor communication
politicians network
1870 1870 1870 1876 1876
Ellis Island, About Thomas Alva
20% of immigrants Edison, Established
to be inspected the worlds first
research laboratory
in Menlo Park, NJ

5. Battle of Little
Great plains, George Bighorn, The Native
grasslands Westinghouse, He Americans were
extending through helped make ready and crushed
the west-central electricity safer and Custer’s troops
portion of the US less expensive within an hour
1876 1876 1876 1876 1877
Telephone invented Literacy Test, Test
by Alexander Bell you had to take
and Thomas before you could
Watson vote

6. Brooker T.
Washington,
Headed the
Tuskegee Normal
and Industrial
Institute
1877 1881 1881 1881
Assimilation, Native
Nez Perce, Forced Sitting Bull,
Americans were to
off their tribal lands Surrender to the
give up their beliefs
in Wallowa Country, federal government
and way of life and
Oregon
become part of
white culture

7. Political Machine, An
organized group that
controls a political Samuel Grompers,
party in a city Led the cigar
maker’s International
Union
1885 1886 1886 1886
Colored Farmer’s
Alliance, Promoted
cooperative buying Settlement House, A
and selling community center
providing assistance to
residents in a slum
neighborhood

8. George Eastman,
Introduced his
Kodak camera
1887 1887 1888 1889
Jane Adams, One of
Dawns Act, Intended
Soddy, A home built the most influential
to “Americanize”
of blocks of turf members of the
Native American
moment

9. W.E.B. Dubois, First
African American to
receive a doctorate
from Harvard
1892 1894 1894 1895
Ida B. Wells, 3 Eugene V. Debs, Melting pot, A
friends of Ida were Attempted to form a mixture of people
lynched-illegally skilled or unskilled from different
executed without industrial union cultures
trial

10. Collective
Bargaining,
Negotiation between
representatives of
labor and
management
1890 1890 1890 1890
Ghost Dance, A Wounded Knee, Kickbacks, Illegal
ritual the Native Within minutes, the payments for their
Americans did to Seventh Cavalry services
restore their land slaughtered as many
and way of life as 300 mostly
unarmed Native
Americans, including
several children

11. “Cross of Gold
Speech”, Spoken by
William Jennings
Bryan
1896 1896 1896
William McKinley, William J. Bryan,
Nominated for Democratic nominee
President by
Republican party

12. Graft, The illegal use
of political influence
for personal gain
1899 1900 1901
Andrew Carnegie, Monopoly, Complete
Carnegie steel control over its
industries production
company
manufactured more
than all the factories
in Great Britain

13. 1903 1910-1940
Orville and Wilbur, Angel island, Asians
Built the air plane, arriving on the west
first successful flight coast gained
at Kitty Hawk, NC admission here

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