1876-1900

By belle.huffman

  • Invention of the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone.

  • The Centennial Exposition

    The Centennial exposition begins, this is the 100 year anniversary that the Declaration of Independence had been signed.

  • The Transcontinential express arrives in San Fransisco 83 hours after it left New York City, New York

    It took the train 83 hours and 39 mins. for it to arrive in California from new York.

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    300 Casualties

  • Colorado becomes the 38th states

  • Compromise of 1877

    US Federal Government pulled the last of their troops out of the south, formally ending the Reconstruction Ear
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    Hays becomes president

    Rutherford B. Hays is elected the 19th US president.

  • Lightbulb is invented

    Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb
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    Chester A Arthur becomes the US president

    Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st President of the United States of America.
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    Grover Cleaveland becomes President

    Cleaveland becomes he 22nd President in 1885
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    Harrison became president

  • South Dakota becomes a state.

  • North Dakota becomes a state

  • Washington becomes a state

  • Idaho became a state

  • Wyoming becomes a state

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    Panic of 1893

    The US entered into a deep economic depression in 1893. Stocks declines, Banks closed, and unemployment hit a high.

  • Utan became a state

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    Galveston TX Hurricane, 1900

    Galveston, a beach own in Texas was wrecked by a Hurricane, killing 8,000 people