1. Jamie Averill
US History 3rd
Vocabulary Timeline
1865-1895

2. 1850 1857 1862
Pioneers on the flat Thousands of 1864
Fredrick Law 1862
plains lived in Olmsted, a African Sand Creek Massacre
landscape Homestead Act
freestanding houses Americans Gen. Curtis of US Army
made of prairie turf architect, plans 160 free acres of moved from told Gen. Chivington to
called soddies. Central Park in West land to each Post-recon. send troops to Sand
Small and leaked New York family. 600,000 Creek reservation and
South to Kansas
families. killed over 150
when it rained , :exodusters
offered little light Cheyenne warriors,
and air. women, and children.
http://www.secoloradoheritage.com/about-our-
http://www.fredericklawolmsted.com/central.html heritage/downloads/photos/sand-creek/Sand%20Creek.jpg/view

3. 1864 1865 1865 1867
Credit Mobilier US Government George Westinghouse Grandfather Clause
construction starts to take patents rotary steam If African American,
company formed by worthless paper engine his father, or
Union Pacific Railroad money ‘greenbacks’ grandfather could
stockholders. out of circulation vote before Jan, 1
Charged 2-3 times 1867 then poll taxes
actual cost and gave and literacy tests
profits to congress didn’t matter
http://www.socialwelfarehistory.com/eras/the-long-depression/ http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/imagedetail.aspx?id=2743

4. 1868 1869
1867 1867 Boss Tweed becomes Transcontinental
Oliver Kelly started Patrons of head of Tammany railroad finished.
Husbandry is Hall, NYC’s Atlantic to Pacific coasts.
Patrons of
popularly known Democratic political Built by foreign laborers.
Husbandry
as Grange machine
http://old.gothamgazette.com/article/fea/20050704/202/1467
http://longhillnj.info/lht/grange.htm http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/development-
west/essays/transcontinental-railroads-compressing-time-and-space

5. 1869 1872 1873
1870 1870
Tweed Ring Ward’s catalog Mark Twain
Jacob Riis came Rapid urbanization 1873
Corrupt to Denmark and launched. The writes The
(Growth of cities). Andrew Carnegie
politicians became a police Gilded Age.
Urban population start of mail- starts Carnegie Mocks corrupt
defraud reporter, where from 10 million to
New York city. order catalogs, Steel Company government
he helped many 54 million between
Led by Boss of New York city
then Sears in and greed of
1870 and 1920
Tweed that had bad 1886. the time
living conditions.
http://21stcenturylearning.sharepoint.com/Pages/Industrialization.asp
http://www.cartoonstock.com/vintage/directory/w/wiliam_boss_twe x
ed.asp http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/scrapbook/05_gilded_age/index.html

6. 1876 1876 1880
1876 Ragtime music 1880
Alexander Thomas Edison
Custer’s Last Stand starts. George Pullman
Graham Bell Starts first research lab in Beat Sioux indians African American Runs town of
invents the
NJ. Invents incandescent spirituals and Pullman. Strict rules
telephone
light bulb in 1880 European musical for his employees.
forms. Manufacture sleeper
and railroad cars.
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inharmony/detail.do?action=detail&f
ullItemID=/lilly/starr/LL-SSM-2-305-0001
http://www.edisonmuckers.org/thomas-edison-lightbulb/ http://www.pullman-museum.org/theTown/

7. 1881
1880 1881 1881
Native American
90% of nations steel Sitting bull, a Sioux Booker T.
sympathizers
is made using leader surrenders to Washington heads
supported
Bessemer process. US Army Tuskegee Normal
assimilation. A plan
Air injected into and Industrial
where Native
molten iron to Institute
Americans gave up
remove carbon and
their way of life and
impurities.
adopted white
https://www.google.com/search?q=sitting+bull&oe=utf- culture.
8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en
https://www.google.com/search?q=assimilation&oe=utf-
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/B/Bessemer_process.html 8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-

8. 1886
1883 1886 1886 Haymarket Affair
Hungarian immigrant Westinghouse Samuel Grompers led Citizens protest police
Joseph Pulitzer bought Electric Cigar Makers brutality in Haymarket
‘New York World’. founded by International Union square, Chicago.
Popular newspaper, George to join with other Bomb thrown on
competed with Westinghouse craft unions. police, 8 convicted, 4
‘Morning Journal’ American Federation hanged, 1 suicide in
of Labor jail. Public then turns
against labor
http://explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=1-2-1260
movement
https://www.google.com/search?q=haymarket+affair&oe=utf-
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/ 8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&

9. 1886 1887
1887 1888
Colored Farmers Interstate
Dawes Act George Eastman
National Alliance Commerce Act
Congress gives Makes Kodak
formed. 250,000 Right of Fed. Govn’t
reservation lands to camera. Flexible
members. Some to supervise
individual natives and film covered in
wanted railroad activities
settlers. No money gelatin, send film
segregation of and establish
went to natives for land to studio to
organizations, commission for that
being given away. process.
others wanted to purpose.
cooperate. http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/the-dawes-act-
started-the-u.s.-land-grab-of-native-territory-96582
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL7899567W/The_Interstate_Commerc http://www.historiccamera.com/cgi-
e_Act_and_federal_anti-trust_laws bin/librarium/pm.cgi?action=display&login=kodak_film

10. 1889 1890 1890
1892
Jane Addams 1890 Wounded Knee Sherman Antitrust
Ellis Island
founds Chicago’s Sioux Indians were Seventh Cavalry rounds up Act
NY harbor,
Hull house, a told by a prophet 350 Sioux and takes them to a Made it illegal to
immigrants had
settlement the popular Ghost camp in South Dakota. form a trust that
to pass
Dance would help Soldiers demand weapons and interfered with
home. inspection to be
them regain land end up killing 300 mostly free trade
admitted into
and way of life. unarmed Native Americans. between states or
US
Believed Ghost Dance would other countries
help them regain land and
way of life.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20130210/NEWS/302100019/Sac
red-ground-sale-Wounded-Knee http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/

11. 1894
1892 1892 Eugene V. Debs 1894
Populist party Ida B. Wells Attempted to Pullman strike
convention Omaha, 3 of her friends form Industrial Panic of 1893
Nebraska. lynched; executed union. Won Let off 3000, cut
Demanded debt lift without trial. strike for higher wages by 25-50%
for farmers and Excuse to get rid of wages. Strikebreakers
workers to give negros acquiring involved, became
people greater voice wealth and violent, troops sent.
in government. property Most of strikers fired.
http://www.lib.niu.edu/1994/ihy941208.html
http://suite101.com/article/populism-a237852 http://www.nabj.org/?IdaBWells

12. 1895 1895 1896
W.E.B. Dubois is 1896 1899
William Hearst Rural-free delivery.
the first African- purchases Packages from William Bryan gives
American to famous “Cross of Gold” Actor Edwin Royle hailed
New York mail-order
receive a vaudeville theatre as “An
‘Morning catalogs, like Sears speech at Democratic
doctorate from convention during his American invention”
Journal’ and Ward, sent to
Harvard presidential election. Included song, dance,
homes
juggling, slapstick comedy
and female chorus lines.
http://www.historyteacher.net/USProjects/DBQs2000/apush2000-
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/w-e-b-du-bois
dbq9.htm
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gastudiesimages/Rural%20Free%20
Delivery%20Stamp%202.htm

13. 1896 1901
1903 1905 1896
William McKinley: United States Orville and Wilber Plessy vs.
rich and supported W.E.B. Dubois founds
Steel buys the Wright Niagara Movement. Furguson
won presidential
largest First flight, a Blacks seek liber arts Segregation of
election against biplane in Kitty
manufacturer, education so A-A races is legal,
William Bryan: Hawk, N.C.
Carnegie Steel, communities have separate but equal
Democrat that did 120 ft 12 seconds well-educated services, didn’t
“cross of Gold” and becomes a violate 14th
speech leaders
monopoly,. amendment
http://www.culturequest.us/ecomm/annstillman/Plessy%20VS%20F.ht
http://www.old-picture.com/mathew-brady-studio/McKinley-
ml
President-William.htm http://www.writerwill.com/first-in-flight/

14. 1910 1910 1911
1910 1920
Native born 10 Million Debt peonage
Angel Island Government
Americans Americans shop violates 13th
San Francisco bay established first
thought of by mail-order amendment.
Asian immigrants transcontinental
their country catalogs from Debt peonage
questioned for airmail service .
as a melting mostly Sears bound laborers to
admittance into
pot of and Ward. slavery to work off
West coast
different debt to employer.
cultures and
http://www.airmailpioneers.org/history/milestone2.html
races.
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/angel/gallery.htm