1865-1900

By cfsolocello

  • Pikes Peak gold rush

  • Homestead Act

  • Morill Act

    provides public land for higher education
  • Period: to

    Andrew Johnson Presidency

  • American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)

  • National Grange organized

  • Period: to

    U.S. Grant Presidency (1869-1877)

  • Jim Fisk and Jay Gould Scandal

  • Amnesty Act

  • Panic of 1873

  • Comstock Law

  • Whiskey Ring Scandal

  • The Resumption Act

  • Battle of the Little Bighorn

  • Period: to

    Rutherford B. Hayes Presidency

  • The Compromise of 1877

  • The End of Reconstruction

    due to the Compromise of 1877

  • Rail Road Wages cut 10%

  • The Bland-Allison Act

  • The Formation of the Greenback Labor Party

  • Redemtion Day

  • James A. Garfield Presidency (1881)

  • Period: to

    Chester A. Arthur

  • Booker T. Washington heads Tuskegee Institute

  • The Chinese Exclusion Act

  • First Immigration-Restriction Laws Passed

  • The Passing of the Pendleton Act

  • Federal Government outlaws Indian Sun Dance

  • Period: to

    Grover Cleveland Presidency

  • American Protective Association (APA) formed

  • Period: to

    Benjamin Harrison

  • Daews Severalty Act

  • National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) formed

  • People's Party (populists)

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

  • The Formation of the Populist Party

  • Period: to

    Grover Clevland (AGAIN!)

  • The Depression of 1893

  • Coxey's Army

  • Pullman Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson Court Case

    Allowed segregation laws (Jim Crow laws)

  • McKinley wins election of 1896

  • Period: to

    William McKinley

  • Dingley Tariff Act

  • Gold Standard Act

  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded

  • Indian Reorganization Act

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