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1st President
George Washington becomes the first president. -
Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights is ratified -
2nd President
John Adams is elected president -
3rd President
Thomas Jefferson is elected president -
4th President
James Madison is elected president -
5th President
James Monroe is elected president -
Transcontinental Railroad
Transcontinental Railroad is finished and connects at Utah -
Battle of Little Big Horn/ Custer's Last Stand
Custer and his men are defeated by the Arapaho, Lakota, and Northern Cheyenne Indian tribes. -
End of Reconstruction
Reconstruction ends in the South -
Ellis Island
Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892. Annie Moore, from Ireland, was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot. -
Spanish American War begins
The Maine explodes and so does the gun powder as the war begins -
The Maine is destroyed
The Maine explodes and Spain is to blame. This is one of the big caralysts of the Spanish American war -
First car company created
Ford starts the first car company. Each car is the same color and has the same parts making it easier to produce. -
Angel Island opens up for operation
Widely known as the “Ellis Island of the West” the station differed from Ellis Island was located in San Francisco Bay where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated. -
16th Amendment ratified
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
17th Amendment ratified
Now people can vote for the U. S senators who were originally chosen by the state legislatures
