Time Line By margaretmoss May 16, 1860 Lincoln becomes republican candidate 1861 Abraham Lincoln becomes president 1861 Japanese immigrants arrive on Hawaiian Islands 1861 American Civil WAr Jan 31, 1861 General Robert E Lee becomes confederate general in cheif Jan 13, 1862 Fort Fisher Battle 1863 The Emancipation Proclemation Apr 14, 1863 Good Friday 1865 Andrew Jackson becomes president 1865 Black Codes 1865 THe Freedman's Bureau Apr 15, 1865 Lincoln Assassination 1867 Reconstruction Acts 1869 First College Football Game 1869 Public School for hearing bisabled children 1869 Periodic Table 1873 Barbed Wire was invented 1873 Telephone was invented 1877 Ulysses S. Grant becomes president 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president 1879 Electric Light Bulb was invented 1881 James A. Garfield becomes president 1881 Chester A. Arthur becomes president 1885 Grover Cleveland becomes president 1887 Softball was invented 1888 Handheld Camera was invented 1888 Electric Motor was invented 1889 Benjamin Harrison becomes president 1891 NEA hires teachers for disabled children 1892 First Basketball Rules where invented 1892 Diesel Engine was invented 1893 Grover Cleveland becomes president again 1894 Bill proposed to require literacy tests for immigrants passed in 1917 1895 Radio was invented 1895 X-Rays 1896 First Modern International Olympic Games 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson 1897 William McKinley becomes president 1903 First Modern World Series Game in Major League Baseball 1903 Airplane was invented 1904 First African American in Olympics 1907 First Piloted Helicopter 1909 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president 1909 William Howard Taft becomes president 1913 Woodrow Wilson becomes president 1914 World War 1 1917 Asiatic Barred Act $8 tax on each immigrant, shut out foreigners lacking reading ability 1920 Traffic Light was invented 1921 Warren G. Harding becomes president 1921 Lie Detector was invented 1923 Calvin Coolidge becomes president 1924 National Origins Act Limited # of immigrants 1927 Big Bang Theory 1927 The Immorality Act 1929 Herbert Hoover becomes president 1930 Women have the option to be teachers