1ST SEMESTER TIME LINE

  • Invention of the telegragh

    Invention of the telegragh
    Samuel Morse was the inventer of the telegragh which was the first comunication transfering device.
  • Homestead Act

    The government would give citizens unsettled land out west if they would live on it for 5 years.
  • End of Civil War

    General Lee of the confederate army surrenders to the North.
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    The transcontinental railroad was made up of the Union pacific railroad ond the Central Pacific railroad that met at Promontary Point.
  • Telephone was invented

  • Battle of little Bighorn

    Was a battle over the Black Hills where George Custer was killed and all of his men.
  • End of reconstruction

    President Hayes withdrawes troops from the south ending reconstruction.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    The U.S. bands Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. for ten years then later extended for ten more years.
  • Pendleton Act is passed

    The Act was a reaction to the assasination of president Garfeild, the government had to pass a civil service reform act.
  • Time Zone are created

    Were created for the railroad so there were set sceduales and no accidents.
  • Dawes Act

    The act was to make the indians into farmers ofering then between 80 to 160 acres of land.
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act is Passed

    Was passed to abolish monopolies.
  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    The battle broke out when they came to arrest Sitting Bull for preforming the Ghost dance, Sitting Bull was killed.
  • Ellis Island opens

    Was a station for immagrants to enter the U.S. was and Island off of New York.
  • Model T invented