American History Timeline

By terrell.bradshaw385
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    Jaunary 1,1865 to December 31,1905

  • Assassination of Lincoln

    Assassination of Lincoln

    Was shot by John Wilkes Booth

  • Alaska Purchased by U.S. from Russia

    Marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

    The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson
  • Fourteenth Amendment

    Fourteenth Amendment

    Addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws

  • Completion Of the Transcontinental railroad

    The completion of the transcontinental railroad enabled the American conquest and settlement of the West.

  • Fifteenth Amendment ratified

    Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States

  • Bell patents the telephone

    Was invented on March 07,1876 by Alexander Graham Bell

  • Battle of Little Big Horn

    The Battle of the Little Bighorn was the most successful action fought by the American Indians against the United States Army in the West.

  • Edison invented electric light

    Edison produced a bulb that could glow for over 1500 hours

  • Assassination of Garfield

    Garfelid was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau

  • Chinese Exculsion Act

    One of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

  • Standard Oil organized by Rockefeller

    He founded Standard Oil Company and actively ran it until he officially retired in 1897

  • Pendelton Act enacted

    An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States.

  • Brooklyn Bridge Opened

    Connected the great cities of New York and Brooklyn for the first time in history.
  • Statue of Liberty given to the U.S.

    Statue of Liberty given to the U.S.

    Liberty Enlightening the World measures 151 feet high and has come to symbolize freedom and democracy nationwide

  • Jane Adsams opens hull house

    Opened its doors to recently arrived European immigrants

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act passed

    The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Was the single biggest defeat for U.S. forces

  • Ellis Island opened

    It was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954

  • Duryea brothers build first American automobile

    Is considered the first successful gas-engine vehicle built in the U.S
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson

    Separate but Equal
  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War

    Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20,000,000

  • Assassination of McKinley

    was shot and fatally wounded on September 6, 1901, inside the Temple of Music on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York

  • First radio signals sent by Marconi

    In spite of predictions that the radio waves would be lost as the earth curved over that long distance.

  • Treaty signed by U.S. and Panama allowing US to build canal

    The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade

  • First powered flight by Wright brothers

    The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane.