american history timeline

By nathan.marks402

  • First transatlantic cable from North America to Europe

    The first communications occurred August 16, 1858, reducing the communication time between North America and Europe from ten days
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    amercan history timeline

  • Assassination of Lincoln

    Linoln was shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth

  • Alaska purchased from Russia

    The U.S. bought Alaska from russia for $7.2 million

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

    President Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives on February 24, 1868 and the Senate tried the case in a trial that lasted from March to May 1868.

  • Fourteenth Amendment ratified

    The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States

  • Competition of the Transcontinental Railroad

    railroad line constructed in the United States between 1863 and 1869

  • Fifteenth Amendment ratified

    the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote.

  • Standard Oil organized by Rockefeller

    Standard Oil Articles of Incorporation signed by John D. Rockefeller

  • The telephone

    The telephone is one of the most used things today

  • Battle of Little Big Horn

    an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.

  • Edison invented the electric light

    It was during this time that he said: "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."

  • Assassination of president Garfield

    Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at 9:30 am

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur.

  • Pendleton Act enacted

    On January 16, 1883 Congress passed the Civil Service Act, which is sometimes referred to as the Pendleton Act after U.S. Senator George Hunt Pendleton.

  • Brooklyn Bridge opened

    The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States.

  • Satue Of Liberty given to the U.S.

    It was a gift from France, given to America in 1886

  • Jane Addams opens Hull House

    She started earning the prize on September 18, 1889. That was her first day at Hull House.

  • sherman Anti-trust Act passed

    The law was Congress' first action to prohibit trusts.

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    The U.S. cavalrymen pursued and killed many who were unarmed.

  • Ellis Island opened

    Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892

  • Hawaiian Islands claimed by the U.S.

    Hawaii became a protectorate of the United States

  • First American automobile

    The Duryah brothers built the first automobile

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Homer A. Plessy v. Ferguson was argued in the Supreme Court of the United States.

  • First radio signals sent by Marconi

    Marconi sent the first radio signal

  • Spanish American War

    The Spanish-American War was an important turning point in the history of both antagonists.

  • Assassination of president McKinley

    he was shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist.

  • Treaty signed by US and Panama

    the Hay-Herrán Treaty was signed with Colombia, granting the United States use of the Isthmus of Panama

  • First powered flight by the Wright brothers

    Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina.