1. Timeline of Events from
1862-1896
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2. Oliver Kelley
Homestead Act
Started the Patrons
U.S. law providing of Hunsbury
160 acres in the organization for
west to any citizen farmers (Grange) To
who was head of a provide social outlet
household and and educational
would cultivate land forum for isolated
for 5 years. members.
1862 1864 1867 1867
Homesteader SandCreek Grange
Massacre
Settlers on the free Organization started
land provided by the Attack on the by Oliver Kelley to
Homestead Act of Cheyenne & provide a social
1862. Arapaho by Colonel outlet and
Chivington-killed educational forum
over 150 Indians. It for isolated farm
was a result of Gen. families.
S.R. Curtis’ hatred
for Native
Americans.

3. George
Westinghouse
Invented the rotary
steam engine, the
car replacer, and Jacob Riis
reversible frog. He
also devised the He moved NYC from
Longhorns Denmark and
Westinghouse Farm
Engine. He invented became a news
Sturdy, short-
a railroad breaking reporter. He was
tempered cattle
system using shocked at the level
breeds accustomed
compressed air in of poverty and used
to the dry grasslands
1869. his talents to expose
of southern spain.
the hardships of
living in it.
1867 1868 1870 1870
Tammany Hall Tweed Ring
NYC’s powerful Group of corrupt
Democratic political politicians led by
machine headed up William Tweed
by William M. Tweed “Boss Tweed” in
who led the Tweed defrauding the city.
Ring in defrauding
the city.

4. Fredrick Law
Olmstead Andrew Carnegie
Landscape architect Was the model for
who helped make an American
plans for Central success story.
Park. He also drew Started a steel
landscapes for business and found
Washington D.C., how to make better
St. Louis, and the quality products
“Emerald Necklace”. cheaper.
1870 1873 1874
John D. Rockefeller Trust
Established the Standard Illegal Mergers –
Oil company which used participants turned
trust funds. Some critics stock over to a
called his tactics “Robber group of trustees
Barons”. He gave away and in turn the
500 million establishing company was
the Rockefeller entitled to dividends
Foundation. on profits earned by
trust.

5. Alexander Bell
Melting Pot Invented the
Segregation
A mixture of people telephone which
Laws that separated of different cultures opened a new
and races that method of
Black and white communication
people in public and blended together by
abandoning original throughout the
private facilities. nation.
customs.
1875 1876
Ellis Island Battle of Little- Sitting Bull
Bighorn
Immigration station in Led the Sioux in
New York Harbor in Battle occurring after their victory at the
which immigrants had Sitting Bull’s vision Battle of Little-
to pass a physical of the American Bighorn. He later
examination as well as troops that caused appeared in “Buffalo
answer specific the Sioux and Bill’s” Wild West
questions before being Cheyenne to attack show (1885)
admitted into the and win a battle
country. against Gen.
Custer’s troops.

6. Telephone
Vanderbilt Family
The most dramatic
invention next to the American railroad
light bulb which family who got their
opened a way for fortune from
worldwide shipping and rail.
communication- They are known as
Invented by the 7th wealthiest
Alexander Bell. family in the world.
1876 1877 1878
Collective
Bargaining
The Negotiation
between
representatives of
labor and
management to
reach written
agreements on
wages, hours, and
working conditions.

7. Bessemer Process
Developed
Dumbbell
independently by Thomas Edison
Tenements
British manufacturer
Law requiring every Henry Bessemer Invented and
inhabitable room and American perfected the first
have a window William Kelley. incandescent light
opening to plain air- Involved interjecting bulb and later
also met by air into molten iron invented an entire
including air shafts to remove impurities. system for
between buildings. electricity.
1879 1880 1881
Jim Crow Laws Settlement Houses
Segregation laws to Community centers
separate blacks in slum
from whites in public neighborhoods
and private facilities. providing assistance
for people in that
area.

8. Mark Twain
Booker T.
Washington Novelist and
humorist who
African American inspired young
educator who authors when he
believed racism Urbanization declared
would end once independence of
black people proved The growth of cities
literature. Wrote The
economic value in mostly in the
Adventures of
society. Northeast and
Huckleberry Finn.
Midwest regions.
1881 1883 1884
Joseph Pulitzer
Assimilation
Hungarian immigrant
Plan under which
who bought the New
Native Americans
York World and
would give up their
emphasized sex,
way of life and join
sin, and sensation.
white culture.

9. Eugene V. Debs
Democrat who was
elected into the
Indiana General Ida B. Wells
Assembly and was
instrumental in the Was a teacher who
founding of the Graft became the editor of a
American Railway local paper in
Union. He was also The illegal use of Memphis- Primary
a very well known political influence for theme of paper was
socialist. personal gain. racial justice.
1884 1885 1886
Haymarket Affair Samuel Gompers
Political Machine
The aftermath of the Led the Cigar Makers
An organized group
bombing that took International Union to
the controls the
place at Haymarket join other crafts
activities of a political
Sq. Chicago. Began as unions. He was
party in a city. They
a peaceful rally in president of the
also offer services to
support of an 8 hour American Federation
voters & businesses in
work day but after of Labor which
exchange for political
someone threw a focused on collective
or financial support.
dynamite bomb, 7 bargaining.
police died, 7 were
sentenced to death,
and 1 was sentenced
to prison.

10. Bimetallism
Poll Tax
Monetary system in
which the Annual tax having to
government would be paid before
give citizens either qualifying to vote.
gold or silver in Blacks and whites
exchange for paper were often too poor
money or checks. to pay.
1887 1888
Dawes Act George Eastman Socialism Grandfather Clause
Act passed by Developed a series Economic and Stated that if a man
Congress to of more convenient political system was unable to pay
“Americanize” Native alternatives to heavy based on the poll tax, he could
Americans- broke up glass plates used in government control still vote if his father
reservations and gave photography and of business, or grandfather had
land to individuals- 160 released the first property, and equal been eligible to vote
acres to head of Kodak camera. distribution of health. before Jan. 1, 1867.
household and 80
acres to individual
adults.

11. Ghost Dance
Jane Addams Paiute Prophet told
Very influential member Sioux to perform this
of the settlement house ritual dance so that
movement. She their way of life
believed that workers would be restored
would learn from life from poverty. As the
itself. She was also an Monopoly dance spread alarm
anti-war activist, did also and military
Complete control
spokesperson for racial leaders were
over an industry’s
justice and advocate for ordered to arrest
production, wages,
quality of life issues. Sitting Bull.
and prices.
1889 1890
Battle of Wounded Sherman Antitrust
Knee Act
The 7th Calvary Made it illegal to
rounded up 350 form a trust that
Sioux and took them interfered with free
to a camp at trade between states
Wounded Knee creek or other companies.
in S.D.. The next day
they were ordered to
give up weapons
when a shot was fired
from an unknown
side. The soldiers
opened fire with a
cannon.

12. Pullman Strike
Angel Island Nationwide conflict
Populist between American
Immigration station Railway Union and
Peoples party that in San Francisco railroads that occurred in
gave birth to Bay where many the U.S. which shut down
Populism-demanded Asians entered the much of the nations
reforms to lift debt country. Stood in freight and passenger
from farmers and contrast to Ellis traffic. Began when
workers in order to Island because of its 4,000 employees of
give people a harsh questioning Pullman Palace Car Co.
greater voice in the and detainment of went on a wildcat strike.
government. immigrants.
1892 1893 1894
Scab Orville & Wilbur
Wright
Strike breakers hired
by company president Bicycle
Henry Clay Frick to manufacturers who
keep the steel plant experimented in
operating- everyone engines. They
was going on strike invented the first
because of low wages. successful airplane.

13. The Gilded Age Ends
Time of enormous growth
W.E.B. Dubois
that attracted millions from
1st African American Europe. Railroad were a
to receive a major industry, factories,
doctorate from mining and labor unions
Harvard. He strongly gained importance. It
disagreed with interrupted many
Booker T. depressions. Reformers
Washington’s were working hard, and
gradual approach to there were issues of Black
the end of racism. rights.
1895 1896
Patronage William Jennings William Mckinley
Bryan
The giving of Republican
government jobs to Editor of The Omaha candidate winning
people who had World- delivered election with 7
helped a candidate impassioned million votes and
become elected. address to the collapsed populism
assembled by buying the hopes
delegates that came of farmers.
to be known as the
“Cross of gold
speech”.