1865-1898

  • Greeley's "Go West, young man"

  • Knights of Labor organized

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • First Transcontinental Railroad completed

  • Standard Oil Trust Founded

  • WCTU formed

  • Great Railroad Strike

  • Posse Comitatus Act

  • Tuskegee Institute created

  • Garfield Assassinated

  • Time Zones introduced

  • Haymarket Riot

  • American Federation of Labor Founded

  • Dawes Act

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

  • Homestead Strike

  • Turner's Frontier Thesis

  • Pullman Strike

  • US steel formed