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| The Rise of Modern America |
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TIMELINE 1866-1918 |
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1866 Reconstruction begins
1867 U.S. purchases Alaska for $7.2 million
1868 14th Amendment ratified (Citizenship rights not to be abridged)
President Andrew Johnson impeached by House; acquitted by Senate
1869 Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads meet at Promontory Point in Utah; first transcontinental railroad
1870 15th Amendment ratified (Race no bar to voting rights)
1871 The Great Chicago Fire
1872 Congress establishes first national park at Yellowstone
1873-77 Economic Depression
1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia celebrates American independence
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
General Custer’s Last Stand at Little Big Horn, MT
Baseball’s National League founded
1877 Reconstruction officially ends following contested Hayes-Tilden presidential election
Thomas Edison develops the phonograph
1878 First telephone exchange system opens in New Haven, CT
1879 Thomas Edison develops the incandescent light bulb
Woolworth opens first five-and-ten store in Utica, NY
1881 Booker T. Washington establishes the Tuskegee Institute for African Americans
1882 Workers parade in New York City, first Labor Day
1883 Standard Railway Time begins at noon with five time zones
Pendleton Act reforms civil service system
Brooklyn Bridge opens in New York City
1884 Lewis E. Waterman develops the “fountain pen”
1886 Haymarket riot and bombing followed bitter labor battles for 8-hour day in Chicago
Statue of Liberty dedicated in New York harbor
1887 Frank Julian Sprague develops the electric streetcar
1888 George Eastman sells the first roll-film camera, the Kodak
1889 Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr found Hull House, the first U.S. social settlement
Johnstown Flood kills 2,200 in PA
1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed, began federal effort to curb monopolies
Battle of Wounded Knee occurs in SD; last major conflict between U.S. and Native Americans
1892 Ellis Island opens to receive immigrants
Homestead strike at Carnegie steel mills in PA; 18 killed
1893 First World’s Fair in Chicago
1893-1897 Economic depression
1894 Railroad car workers strike against Pullman Company
Edison’s kinetoscope (motion pictures) given first public showing
1896 George Washington Carver becomes the Tuskegee Institute’s agricultural department head
Supreme Court’s Plessy v. Ferguson decision approves racial segregation under principle of “separate but equal”
William Jennings Bryan delivers “Cross of Gold” speech
1898 USS Maine destroyed in Havana in February, sparking the Spanish-American war; ends in December with the Treaty of Paris
Hawaii annexed
1899 U.S. declares Open Door Policy; opens trade with China
John Dewey publishes School and Society advocating “progressive education”
1900 U.S. helps quell Boxer Rebellion in China
International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union formed
1901 President McKinley assassinated by Leon Czolgosz; Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
1903 Wright Brothers make first flight at Kitty Hawk, NC
1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act are both passed
San Francisco earthquake kills 503
1907 Financial depression
1908 Ford Model T available for $850
1909 Robert Peary claims to have reached North Pole
NAACP founded
1910 Boy Scouts founded
1911 Supreme Court dismantles Standard Oil
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in New York City kills 146 factory workers, mostly young women and immigrants
Domestic parcel post system is operational
Mother’s Day becomes a U.S. holiday
First transcontinental airplane flight
1912 R.M.S. Titanic sinks in North Atlantic after hitting iceberg
Girl Scouts founded
1913 Father’s Day becomes a U.S. holiday
16th Amendment ratified (Income tax authorized)
17th Amendment ratified (Senators to be elected by popular vote)
New York Armory Show brings modern art to the U.S.
Federal Reserve Act reforms U.S. banking and finance
1914-1918 World War I, ending with the Treaty of Versailles
1914 Panama Canal opens
Clayton Anti-Trust Act strengthens federal antimonopoly powers
1915 First transcontinental telephone call
British liner Lusitania sunk off coast of Ireland by German submarine; 128 Americans killed
1916 Pershing enters Mexico to pursue Pancho Villa, who had raided border areas
Jeanette Rankin elected first female representative in the House
U.S. buys Virgin Islands
1917 U.S. enters World War I, following Germany’s declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare
1918 Influenza epidemic kills more than 500,000 people in U.S. |
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