Timeline Review

By hfxrode
  • Time zones are created

    A timezone tells you the different times in each state ours is eastern pacific.
  • Timezones are created

    A timezone tells you the different times in each state ours is eastern pacific.
  • Homestead Act

    Act saying someone is intitled to land up to 160 acres. But they had to file an application, improve the land, and file for deed of title.
  • End of the Civil War

    Started 1861 also known as the war between the states.
  • Boss Tweed jailed

    Boss Tweed was convicted for stealing between $40 million and $200 million from NYC tax payers.
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    A railroad that crosses a continent from coast to coast.
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    A battle between the sioux indians and the whites battle led by gen. george custer.
  • Invention of the Telephone

  • End of reconstruction

    Hayes becomes president so he removes remaining troops from the south which ended reconstruction.
  • Chinese exclusion act

    Act saying chinese immigrants could not come into our country with out paying a fee.
  • Pendleton act is passed

    act that said government employees be selected through competitive exams.
  • Invention of the telegraph

  • Dawes act

    Act regarding the distribution of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma.
  • Sherman Anti Trust Act

    Act that says the U.S. Federal government has to investigate and pursue trusts.
  • Battle of Wounded knee

    U.S. troops surrounded cheif big foot and his followers on the banks of wounded knee.
  • ellis island opens

    You had to be processed in ellis island if you had any deseases or health problems you would be held in ellis island hospitals.
  • Model T