Study Guide for Midterms

  • Invention of the Telegraph

  • Homestead Act

    It gave 160 acres of free land to a person who lived on land for five years.
  • End of the Civiil War

    It was the most devastating conflit in American history.
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    This treaty was supposed to bring peace, but it never did.
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    They chose a Chinese crew to lay the final ten miles of track, which was completed in twelve hours.
  • Boss Tweed jailed

    Tweed was convicted and sentenced to prison.
  • Telephone is Invented

  • End of Reconstruction

    Most of the Republican leaders perferred a new candidate, and the wondered who would win back the Liberal Republicans and unite the party.
  • Time Zones are created

    All communities in each time zone would share the same time, and each zone was an hour apart on either side.
  • Pendleton Act is passed

    It established the Civil Service Commision to set up competitive examinations for federal jobs.
  • Dawes Act

    This law was to get rid of two weaknesses of Native Americans lives.
  • Model T Invented

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act is passed

    The law said to "protect trade and commerce against restraint and monopoly."
  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    No one knows how the fight started but when a pistol shot ran out the army responded with fire.
  • Chinese Exclusin Act

    Stoped Chinese workers for entering the US for 5 years.
  • Ellis Island Opens

    Most Asian immigrants arrived in America on the West Coast and went through the processing center on Angel Island.