The document provides information on various people and events from 1800-1915, including the invention of ragtime music, Karl Marx writing The Communist Manifesto, the Bessemer Process for producing steel, Chief Joseph becoming the leader of the Nez Perce tribe, Andrew Carnegie working on the railroad, the use of Greenbacks during the Civil War, African Americans moving west in the Exoduster movement, the Homestead Act giving land to citizens, the Transcontinental Railroad connecting the east and west coasts, the Sand Creek Massacre of Native Americans, Samuel Gompers founding a labor union, George Pullman inventing the sleeper car, the rise of political machines, the Grandfather Clause restricting voting rights, Oliver Kelley starting

1. 1848
1800s
Ragtime: Form
of music that is
a blend of
African Spiritual
music and
European
musical form.
Karl Marx:
Wrote The
Communist
Manifesto,
which laid the
foundation of
communism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime_
(musical)
1850
1850
Bessemer
Process: Henry
Bessemer and
William Kelly
inject air into
molten iron to
remove the
carbon to
produce the
substance steel.
Chief Joseph:
This man
became the
leader of the
Nez Perce tribe.
(One of the
largest tribes at
that time)
https://americanstudieslaur.wikispaces.
com/Inventions+(1-8)

2. 1854
1861
1862
Andrew
Carnegie:
Carnegie
relayed a
message that
snarled a tangle
of freight and
passenger
trains.
Greenbacks:
The monetary
name during the
period of the
Civil War.
Exoduster:
Name for
African
Americans that
took part in
moving from
post
Reconstruction,
South to
Kansas. Nearly
600,000 families
took part in this
movement.
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/United_States_Note
1862
Homestead
Act: Congress
passes act to
give 160 acres
of land to the
head of every
household as
long as their
citizens.
http://www.glogster.
com/jreynoso/exodusters/g6n46bedus2h37k3afh7h5a0

3. http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad
1863
1864
1864
1865
Transcontinent
al Railroad:
Known as the
Pacific Railroad,
constructed to
attach the
pacific coast
(san francisco
bay ) with
Eastern U.S Rail
Network at
Council Bluff,
Iowa, on the
Missouri River.
Sand Creek
Massacre:
General S.R
Curtis US Army
Commander
sends a
telegram to
colonel John
Chivington to
make the
Cheyenne on
the reserve to
suffer ( the
militia killed 150
inhabitants).
Samuel
Gompers:
Joined the Local
15 of the United
Cigar Makers.
He sought to
make a labor
movement to
increase
economy.
George
Pullman:
Inventor of the
Pullman Sleeper
Car. Lincoln's
body after death
travels in one
back to his
home town.
http://newsburglar.com/2008/10/21/georgepullmans-grave-and-obituary/

4. http://www.marktwainhouse.
org/about/photo_gallery.php
1865
1867
1867
1869
Political
Machine:
Offered services
to voters and
businesses in
exchange for
political or
financial
support.
Grandfather
Clause: The
clause states
that if your
father or
grandfather
could vote
before January
1, 1867 then so
can the the male
offsprings.
Oliver Kelley:
Started the
Patrons of
Husbandry
organization for
farmers that
became known
as the Grange
Mark Twain: A
gifted writer in
the literary arts,
Mark Twain
wrote a
bestseller called
The Innocent
Abroad . He
then went on to
making many
more successful
novels.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-PosterGrandfather-Clause20x30/dp/B005CFGCWS

5. 1869
George
Westinghouse:
Founded the
Westinghouse
Electric and
Manufacturing
Company to
improve AC
power
generators.
1870
Segregation:
Started around
1870s-1880,
these laws
separated the
whites from the
blacks.
http://lineaday.blogspot.com/2011/02/caseagainst-book-segregation.html
1870
Polls Tax: A
annual tax for
mostly
confederate
states that
would qualify
men to vote.
1870
Social
Darwinism:
Grew out of a
renown English
naturalist
Charles Darwin’
s theory of
biological
evolution.
http://bilgrimage.blogspot.com/2012/09/gopattempt-to-turn-back-clock-and.html

6. http://de.wikipedia.
org/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer
1874
George A.
Custer: Custer
reports of gold
in Black Hill in
June. Custer
leads attack on
Sioux- though
Sitting Bull out
flanks Custer
and kills all of
the Seventh
Cavalry.
1875
1876
1876
Collective
Bargaining: A
negotiation
between
representatives
of labor and
management to
reach writer
agreements.
Battle of the
Little Bighorn:
Fought in
Montana
territory against
two native
american tribes.
Telephone: The
first successful
telephone
revolutionized
communication.
(Making much
more faster to
send messages)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-firsttelephone-call-.jpg

7. http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell
1876
Alexander Bell:
Alexander Bell
and Thomas
Watson invent
the first working
telephone, this
was one of the
more dramatic
inventions and it
opened way for
a worldwide
communication
network.
1877
Jim Crow
Laws: During
the time of
segregation,
these laws
separated the
whites from the
blacks.
1877
1877
Vanderbilt
Family: A
famous
American family
of railroad
notability who
became socially
prominent.
National
Farmer
Alliance: Forms
for white
farmers to gain
profit in growing
food.
http://www.allthingsandersoncooper.
com/2009/11/william-henry-vanderbilt.html

8. http://www.evi-fl.com/fsite/index.php/eviacademy/107-white-led-light-is-actually-blue
1878
Gilded Age:
The growth of
industry led to
this age, the
production of
resources was
booming at the
point in history.
1879
1879
1881
Dumbbell
Tenements: A
rule which
stated every
habitable room
has to have a
window opening
into plain air.
Thomas
Edison:
Renown
inventor Edison
created the first
ever working
lightbulb and
founded the
Illuminating
Company.
Booker T.
Washington:
Established the
Tuskegee
Institution in
Alabama, he
aimed to to train
African
Americans in
skills that would
help them the
most.
http://www.edteck.com/dbq/dbquest/quest11.
htm

9. http://www.slate.
com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_rights
_and_the_supreme_court_the_impossible_lit
eracy_test_louisiana.html
http://www.uic.
edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/exhibits/7settlements
/main.htm
1881
1882
Assimilation:
The plan stated
that Native
Americans give
up their beliefs
and way of life
and become
part of the white
culture.
Literacy Test:
This test was to
keep colored
and sometimes
poor white men
from voting in
elections.
1883
1884
Joseph
Pulitzer: A
Hungarian
Immigrant who
bought New
York World and
started
emphasizing
sin, sex, and
sensation.
Settlement
Houses:
Reformers aided
immigrant new
to the country in
slum
neighborhoods.

10. 1884
1886
Mugwumps: A
group of
republican
activists who
supported
democratic
candidate
Grover
Cleveland in the
U.S.
HayMarket
Affair: Peaceful
rally that
supported
workers turned
violent after
dynamite is
thrown at police.
http://homicide.northwestern.
edu/historical/movements/haymarket/
1887
1887
Interstate
Commerce
Commission:
Agency inspired
by Interstate
Commerce Act,
their purpose
was to regulate
railroads,
ensure fair
rates, and many
more jobs.
Dawes Act:
Congress
passes act to
americanize the
natives. The act
broke up some
of the
reservation land.
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Interstate_Commerce_Commission

11. http://growthplates.wordpress.
com/2012/11/18/game-9-good-winbadnews/lithograph-after-a-painting-of-the-battleof-wounded-knee-by-w-m-cary/
1888
1889
1890
1890
George
Eastman:
Inventor of the
first Kodak
camera, helped
make
photography
accessible to
the public.
Jane Adams:
Co Founded
Chicago Hull
Houses helped
many
immigrants new
to the U.S.
William
Jennings
Bryan: Elected
into congress he
was a gifted
debater, in later
years he ran for
presidency three
times, each one
unsuccessful.
Wounded
Knee: The
Seventh Cavalry
rounded up 350
Sioux. After
demanding for
the Sioux
weapons a
random shot
was fired the
Cavalry opened
fired killing 300
mostly
unharmed
natives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eastman

12. http://www.native-americans-online.
com/native-american-ghost-dance.html
1890
Ghost Dance:
Paiute Prophet
told Sioux to
perform this
ritual to restore
way of life, forty
policemen go to
arrest Sitting
Bull, his
bodyguard fires
a shot and in the
fire Sitting Bull
gets killed.
1890
Sherman
Antitrust Act:
This act made
illegal to form a
trust interfered
with free trade
between states
or with other
countries.
1890
Ida B. Wells:
She was a
AfricanAmerican
journalist and
activist who led
an anti-lynching
crusade in the
United States.
1892
Omaha
Platform: A
party program
adopted at the
formative
convention of
the Populist
Party.
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.
com/2012/07/this-day-in-labor-history-july-41892

13. http://www.lib.niu.edu/1994/ihy941208.html
1892
1894
Ellis Island:
European
immigrants that
had to pass a
test and wait to
know if they got
admitted to the
U.S.
Eugene V.
Debs: Unions
should include
skilled and
unskilled
laborers, Debs
created such a
union in 1894
and in that time
the union won a
strike for higher
wages.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/ellisisland.htm
1894
Pullman Strike:
About 3,000
workers go on
“wildcat” strike
because of
unfair treatment
in the
workplace.
1895
W.E.B Du Bois:
First ever
African
American to get
doctorate from
Harvard.
Founder of the
Niagara
Movement
defined itself
against both
racial
oppression and
Washingtonian
conciliation,

14. http://ctorre439.edublogs.
org/2012/05/04/plessy-vs-ferguson/
1896
1896
Cross of Gold
Speech:
Delivered by
William Bryan
for the debate
on monetary
standards. (Very
influential)
Plessy v.
Ferguson: Trial
in the Supreme
Court that
argued that
separation of
race was legal,
but had to be
equal on both
sides. (Separate
but Equal)
1897
William
Mckinley:
Elected into
office in 1897.
Led the U.S to
victory in the
SpanishAmerican War.
1898
William Hearst:
Told the public
extraordinary
stories about
Mars and other
tales to sell
more
newspapers.
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_b
y_William_McKinley

15. http://celebrating200years.noaa.
gov/foundations/aviation_weather/libr0575.
html
1902
Debt Peonage:
This bound
laborers to work
somewhat like
slaves to work
off their debt.
1903
1915
1937
Orville and
Wilbur Wright:
Brothers that
invented the first
ever working
flying plane that
they tested in
NC.(First test
flight flew for 12
seconds)
Graft: An illegal
use of political
influence for
personal gain.
John D.
Rockefeller:
The establisher
of the standard
oil company and
one of the
richest men in
the U.S at that
time.
http://www.challies.com/articles/thephilanthropists-john-d-rockefeller