1876-1900

By anna lazenby

  • 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