The document provides a timeline of key events in 19th century U.S. history from 1861-1896. It covers topics like the Homestead Act of 1862, the transcontinental railroad completion in 1869, inventions like the telephone and light bulb in the 1870s, and events such as the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. The timeline presents these historical developments in a brief but chronological format.

1. U.S.
History
19th
Century
Timeline
Jimmy Tran
Period 1
3/15/13

2. 1861 1862 1863
Made homes
called soddy
Families took Homestead Act passed homes out
advantage of the in 1862. Congress of sod. Cool
Homestead Act offered 160 acres of in summer
and moved West. land for families and warm in
These families winter
became known as
homesteaders
African Americans
known as “Exodusters”
move west from the
deep south in conclusion
to the Homestead Act.

3. 1864 1865 1866
Buffalo Soldiers were
Sand Creek Massacre names given to the
occurs in the great Andrew Carnegie is an black regiments of the
plains. Killed a tribe immigrant that made U.S. Calvary by
of Indians. the Carnegie Steel Indians.
Company that made
nearly all of the worlds
steel near that time

4. 1867 1868 1869
Tammy Hall in New York
Oliver Kelly started the City overcharged The Transcontinental
Patrons of Husbandry for taxpayers for projects Railroad is 1,776 miles
farmers. throughout the city so railroad line built
they could gain some across the western
profit. half of the United
Also know as a Grange. It States of America
provides isolated farmers
with a social outlet and
an educational forum.

5. 1870 1871 1872
Credit Mobilier was
Patronage was when a scandal which the
presidents complained about Union Pacific
the problem of giving Railway sold stock to
government jobs to people politicians in return
who had helped a candidate for favors.
Urbanization
get elected. Know as spoils
sudden growth in
system in Andrew Jacksons
population of
administration.
large cities
because people
moved there to
live more
inexpensively

6. 1873 1874 1875
Ellis Island is an
immigration
station in New Alexander Graham
York City. Bell Invented the
Immigrants had telephone
to pass a series
of health exams
to be admitted
into the country. The telephone is a
telecommunications
device that permits
two or more users to
conduct a conversation

7. 1876 1877 1878
George Armstrong was a The Gilded Age Era was Poll tax was an
highly effective a post civil war time annual tax that
commander in first battle that had rapid growth had to be paid
of bull run and was in the economy and in order to vote
promoted. All of his men population. One of
including him was killed in Grandfather clause
biggest jumps in
the battle of littlebig horn. stated that even if a
American History.
man fails the literacy
The Jim Crow laws were state and test or could not
local laws in the United States afford the poll tax,
enacted between 1876 and 1965. they can still vote if
They mandated racial segregation father or
in all public facilities in Southern grandfather is
states of the former Confederacy eligible to vote

8. Thomas Edison perfected the
incandescent light bulb, and
later invented an entire
system for producing and
distributing electrical power
1879 1880 1881
Exodusters were names
given to African Americans
who migrated from states
along Mississippi River to
Kansas (Exodus of 1879) Sitting Bull was a holy man
who led his people as a
tribal chief during the
years of resistance to US
government policies. Was
in battle of littlebig horn.
He surrendered and was
later shot in the side of the
head

9. 1882 1883 1884
Mugwumps were
Congress slammed
republican political
door on chinese
immigration for 10 activists who bolted
from US republican
years passing Chinese
party by supporting
Exclusion Act.
Democratic
candidate Grover
Cleveland in
presidential
election 1884

10. 1885 1886 1887
William Jennings Dawes Act authorized
Bryan is a Nebraska the president to survey
Congressman that Indian land and divide
delivered the famous it into allotments for
cross of gold speech individual Indians
The interstate commerce
commission’s original purpose
was to regulate railroads to
ensure fair rates, eliminate rate
discrimination, and regulate
other aspects of common
carriers, including interstate bus
lines and telephone companies

11. 1888 1889 1890
US cavalry went to
disarm Lakota in
Graft- Illegal use of
Wounded Knee and
political influence for chief would not give up
personal gain rifle. Shots fired,
situation escalated,
cavalry started killing
indiscriminately.

12. 1891 1892 1893
Booker T. Washington
was an African-
Populist party urged
American educator,
graduated income tax,
author, orator, and
secret ballot, direct
advisor to Republican
senator election known
presidents. He was
as Ohama Platform. It
the dominant leader
won in an eight hour day.
in the African-
American community
in the United States
from 1890 to 1915.

13. 1894 1895 1896
Wealthy William Randolph William McKinley
Hearst owned multiple major was the nominee for
newspapers and printed President in 1896.
exaggerated tales of scandals, Supported the gold
cruelty, hypnotism, and system. Won
conquest of Mars to attract presidency as the
Pullman Strike was a strike readers. 25th president.
between labor unions and Vaudeville theater
U.S. Railways when wages that has performances
were cut and workdays like song, dance,
lengthened. Strikers juggling, comedy for
damaged property. Labor entertainment.
day established

14. Work Cited
• http://www.wikipedia.org/
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