Review Timeline

By hfxsacks2

  • Ivention of Telegraph

  • End of Civil War

    This war the the deadliest in American history by having about 620,000 deaths.

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    This railroad was the first to cross the country in the United States.

  • Boss Tweed Jailed

    Boss Tweed was the head of the New York City's democratic political machine in the 1860's and 1870's.

  • Telephone Invented

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    This battle was when two Indian tribes defeated 200 U.S. troops when they entered the Black Hills.

  • End of Reconstruction

    Reconstruction was a period of debating of how the nation would rebuild the south.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    This wa an act that prohibted any Chinesse immigrants from entering the U.S.

  • Pendleton Act

    This was an act passed by Congress that established the Civil Service Comminsion.

  • Time Zones are created

    The time zones were created because of the trains that crossed across the country.

  • Dawes Act

    This act passed by congress abolished Native American tribes in the United States.

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    This was an act that was passed by congress to make having a monoply illegal.

  • Wounded Knee

    This battle was the last between the U.S. and the Native American tribes. About 200 Sioux and 25 soldiers were killed at this battle.

  • Homestead Act

    Offered 160 acres of land to settlers who could live on it for five years.

  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island was an immigration station located in New York Harbor where immigrants arrived to the U.S. from other countries.

  • Model T Invented