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Gilded Age
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Goverment
Government has 8 hour work day is required -
14th Amendment
The 14th gave african americans more rights. The amendment stats that african americans have equal law rights. An example of equal law rights is that -
Last spike
The last golden spike was stuck in the Transcontinental Rail Road. It was approximately 1775 miles -
Growing
The us population has increased to 39,818,449 people do to the immigrants from other countries -
15 Amendment
After being rejected on 1870 Feb 7. This amendment gave voting rights to african americans. It is said that they confiscated plantations and redistributed the land to freed slaves. -
The Financial Pianic
Slavery is abolishes and many business that used slaveyr failed. People like plantation owners began to lose alot of money -
Barbed Wire
Barbed wire is inviented to keep cattle of new settlers. Some settlers even burned praries to keep them away -
The Telephone
29 year old alexander graham bell fixes up the telephone. Technology is changing -
Defeat of Cluster
George Custer and 265 officers are killed by Sioux Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy at the battle of LittleBigHorn -
The Great Rail Road
The Great Rail Road starts in Marinsburg -
Phonograph
At 30 years old Thomas Edison invents the phongraph -
Conqurer
The Senate conquers a woman's suffrage amendment by a blow out -
The right to speak
Congress will now allow women to take their arguments up with supreme court. Before they weren't important enough to do thi. Women are becoming more equal -
The Lightbulb
Known as "the WIzard of Menlo Park. He made the way for technology before before physics and electricity were comprehended -
Expand US Expand
From 39,818,449 now the US is at 50,155,783 -
The depressed Indian
Helen Jackson writes and publishes a Century of Dishonor the shows the inhumane treatment of the Native Americans -
Tuskegee Institute
n 1932, the Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, Founded by and was first teached by Washington Carver -
Pendleton
It made it unlawful for a politician to get demoted or fired for political reasons -
Standard Time
Rail Roads in the US has developed the time zone we kno today -
The Skyscraper
Chicago construction starts with building the first building with a steel skeleton -
Haymarket Square Bombing
A bombing in Chicago kills during a rally against the police brutality. Police come in to disperse the comotion and a bomb goes of injuring hundreds and kills 11 people -
The Statue of Liberty
The largest metal monument is constructed. The statue represents hope. freedom and opportunity -
Keep Spliting Them Up
The Dawes Severalty Act divides Indian reservations to individual land of 160 to 320 acres. . -
Expand western style
President benjamin harrison reveals plot of Oklahoma land to white settleers only -
Johnstown Flood
Flood breaks out in Johnstown flooding the city and kills 2,295 -
Keep Growing US Keep Growing
US population is now 62,947,7 and grows as the country becomes the world people's ideal place to live and make a living -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Last stand of the Souix. A shot in the Black Hills is fired between the indians and soldiers and a mass number of indians are killed and the rest are forced on reservations. -
More Dishonor
900,000 acres of land that belonged to the Sauk, Fox, and Pottawatomi Indians is openen to more white settlers. -
The Pullman Strike
CHicago workers go on strikes and boycott busses because of the wages and home expenses -
Pless v. Ferguson
Supreme Court rules segreegation of the whites and blacks as long as the have equal facilities. Such as resturaunts bathrooms and other public places.
