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American Cultures 2: Riley

By cn13cr
  • 8 Hour workdays

    8 Hour workdays

    All workers required to work 8 hour days
  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

    Transcontinental Railroad Completed

    Golden spike driven into railroad to finish The railroad
  • Standard Oil Of Ohio

    Standard Oil Of Ohio

    John D. Rockefeller forms Standard Oil of Ohio
  • The Great Chicago Fire

    The Great Chicago Fire

    Claimed 250 Lives and destroyed one third of the city
  • Arrested for Attempting to vote

    Arrested for Attempting to vote

    Susan B. Anthony and other females arrested for attempting to vote in Rochester, New York.
  • Financial Panic of 1873

    Financial Panic of 1873

    There's a Financial Panic, Over 5,000 business's fail
  • America's First Kidnapping For Ransom

    America's First Kidnapping For Ransom

    Charley Brewster Ross is kidnapped from in front of his house, and Is taken for random, his body is never found.
  • Invention Of Barbed-Wire

    Invention Of Barbed-Wire

    Barbed-Wire keeps Cattle on the Great Plains Safe, while others struggle.
  • Patented Telephone

    Patented Telephone

    29 year old Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.
  • Phonograph Invented

    Phonograph Invented

    Thomas Edison Invents the Phonograph
  • Internal Combustion Engine

    Internal Combustion Engine

    Carl Benz makes first car with INternal Combustion Engine
  • Invention of Light Bulb

    Invention of Light Bulb

    Thomas Edison invents the first Light Bulb!
  • Population Rise

    Population Rise

    America's population has now hit 50 million people.
  • Century Of Dishonor

    Century Of Dishonor

    Helen Hunt Jackson's book Century Of Dishonor is released.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, Barring Chinese Immigrants for 10 years.
  • Standard Time Born

    Standard Time Born

    United States and Canada adopt standard time.
  • Birth of The Skyscraper

    Birth of The Skyscraper

    First 10 story hgh rise in Chicago, birth of the Skyscraper.
  • Statue Of Liberty

    Statue Of Liberty

    Glover Cleveland unveils the Statue Of Liberty.
  • Johnstown Flooding

    Johnstown Flooding

    Johnstown, Pa is flooded killed over 2,200 people.
  • Population Rise

    Population Rise

    American population hits 62 million and rising.
  • Sitting Bull killed

    Sitting Bull killed

    Indian police kill Sitting Bull in South Dakota.
  • Wounded Knee Massacre

    Wounded Knee Massacre

    Wounded Knee Massacre happens, kills many.
  • Angry Mobs

    Angry Mobs

    Mobs in New Orleans break into prison and kill 11 Immigrants in rage.
  • Populist Party

    Populist Party

    Populist Part founded in Cinncinati, Ohio.
  • Stolen Land

    Stolen Land

    900,000 Acres of land taken form Native's and givent o white settlers.
  • Voting Populist

    Voting Populist

    Populist party nominates James Baird Weaver for President.
  • Supreme Court

    Supreme Court

    Supreme Court strikes down Income Tax.
  • Battleship Maine

    Battleship Maine

    battleship Maine blows up while anchored in Havana, Cuba.
  • American Citizenship

    American Citizenship

    If you born in America your a legal American citizen regardless of where your parents were born.
  • Annexing Hawaii

    Annexing Hawaii

    Pressident McKinley Annexes Hawaii.