Exam 2 His202 Timeline

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  • Alexis de Tocqueville's trip to America

  • Democracy in America published

  • The Great Potato Famine

  • Elevators invented by Henry Waterman

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • The Gilded Age published

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Interstate Commerce Commission

  • Wounded Knee Massacre

  • Frederick Jackson Turner delivers the Turner Thesis

  • The Frontier Thesis, or Turner Thesis, is delivered at the American History Association conference

  • Depression of 1893

  • Immigration Restriction League is established

  • Pullman Strike occurs

  • The USS Maine exploded

  • Spanish American War

  • The Teller Amendment is added to the declaration of war on Spain

  • Anti-Imperial League is established

  • The Battle of San Juan Hill occurs

  • Treaty of Paris is signed, which ends the Spanish-American war

  • Thorstein Veblen published the Theory of the Leisure Class

  • Theory of the Leisure Class published

  • Simon Patten publishes his first book, the Theory of Prosperity

  • The Panama Canal is started

  • The Treaty of Portsmouth

  • The Great White Fleet begins its journey around the globe.

  • Henry Adams publishes his book The Education of Henry Adams