Mid-term timeline

By hfxbechtel

  • telegraph

  • homestead act

    gave 160 free acres of land to the settlers.

  • end of cival war

    it shattered the economy fight aginsited slavery.North against the south.

  • Transcontinental railroad

    constrection was completed by a chinese crew who was chosen to lay the final ten miles of track.

  • boss tweed jailed

    one of the most corrupt citybasses was the head of new york city's political machin

  • Telephone

  • Battle of little bighorn

    The treaty was supposed to bring peace to the u.s.

  • chinese exclusion act

    first law to limit immigration prohibited chinese from entering into the u.s.

  • time zones are created

    divide the country into four time zones.

  • pendletion act is passed

    established the cival services

  • end of reconstruction

    President lincon offered the first plan for acceptny the souther states.

  • Dawes act

    Congress changed government policy, The act aimed to elimnate what americans regared as the two weaknesses of native americans.

  • Sherman anti-trust act is passed

    The law was passed tp protect trade and commerce against antitrust unlawful restraint and monopoly.

  • battle of wounded knee

    wovota claimed that the sioux could regain their former greatness if they performed aritual known as the ghoust dance.

  • ellis island open's

    in the east immigrants were processed at castle garden.

  • Model t