The Golden Age... Maybe Not By DJanssen Oct 20, 1803 Louisiana Purchase May 14, 1804 Expedition of Lewis and Clark (began) Period: 1850 to 1900 Westward Expansion Apr 12, 1861 Battle of Fort Sumter Period: Apr 12, 1861 to Apr 9, 1865 Civil War May 20, 1862 Homestead Act Jan 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation Period: Jan 1, 1863 to Mar 31, 1877 Reconstruction Era Nov 19, 1863 Gettysburg Address Nov 15, 1864 Sherman's March Mar 3, 1865 Freedmen's Bureau Establishment Apr 9, 1865 Appomattox Court House Apr 14, 1865 President Lincoln's Assassination Dec 6, 1865 Thirteenth Amendment May 10, 1869 Transcontinental Railroad 1870 Fifteenth Amendment Period: 1870 to 1914 Second Industrial Revolution 1879 Invention of the Lightbulb Period: 1890 to 1920 Progressive Era Dec 29, 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre 1901 Theodore Roosevelt Takes Office Dec 17, 1903 First Flight of the Airplane Mar 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Jan 16, 1919 Eighteenth Amendment Aug 18, 1920 Nineteenth Amendment
