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Reconstruction
Act in which attempted to bring the South back to the union. -
13th Amendment
This amendment outlawed slavery in all states. -
KKK
Anti-Black group with the soul purpose to deny black voting rights. -
Civil Rights Act
Federal Government guarantees citizenship to all races. -
14th Amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. -
15th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Great Chicago Fire
The Great Chicago Fire started on Sunday, October 8, and burned for three days before it finally burned itself out Tuesday, October 10, 1871. -
Federal Enforcement Act
An act the decreased Violence -
Custer's Last Stand
The Battle of the Little Bighorn took place a week after General Crook's retreat from Rosebud Creek, when the Sioux, Cheyenne, Lakota, Arapaho and others fell on George Custer's 7th Cavalry on June 25th . -
The Phonograph
Thomas Alva Edison announced his invention of the first phonograph. -
Billy The Kid
Billy the Kid, or William Bonney or Henry McCarty, had been captured in December 1880, and was tried for murder in Mesilla. -
Sitting Bull
Hunger and cold eventually forced Sitting Bull, his family, and nearly 200 other Sioux in his band to return to the United States from Canada and surrender on July 19th , 1881. -
Gunfight At The OK Corral
30 second gunfight between outlaws and cowboys -
Coca Cola
John Pemberton begins selling his formula (a mixture of cocaine and caffeine) at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia in 1886. -
Birth Of Basketball
Dr. James Naismith, a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (YMCA) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, invents an entirely new indoor game using a soccer ball and two peach baskets as goals -
"Moving Pictures"
Thomas Edison, while not having been able to link sound and motion to his kinetograph and kinetoscope was able to to make a silent movie with them. -
Lizzy Borden Case
In the case of the murder of her father Andrew Jackson Borden, and her stepmother, Abby Borden, despite incriminating circumstances but with no murder weapon found and no blood evidence found. A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. -
First Slot Machines
Charles Fey a San Francisco Mechanic builds the First Slot Machines which he puts into local bars, the deal was simple Fey and the Bar Owner would split the profits 50-50. -
First Electric Cars
25% of all cars that were sold in 1900 were electric cars. It will be interesting to see how many years it takes for 25% of all cars sold to be fully electric or Hybrid. -
Small Pox
In Kentucky a small pox epidemic was raging with hundreds of people stricken. The mortality rate was 20% and health authorities demanded that every person in the state be vaccinated. -
New Years
Ball is dropped in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight on January 1st New Year Begins. -
Sinking Of The Titanic
Titanic hits an iceberg, leaving many dead after its sinking.