1876-1900

  • Telephone invention

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
  • End of Reconstruction

    Reconstructions ends with the compromise of 1877
  • Lightbulb invention

    Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb
  • Garfield assassinated

    James A. Garfield was assassinated by Charles Guiteau
  • Garfield is inaugurated

    James A. Garfield becomes president of the United States
  • Annexed states

    North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington are annexed into the United States
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    This case legalized segregation on train cars
  • Treaty of Paris

    The Spanish-American war ended when the Treaty of Paris was signed

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