First Semester Timeline By gregwalker Jan 1, 1850 Bessemer perfects process for steel Period: Jan 1, 1850 to Jan 1, 1871 federal land grants to railroads Period: Jan 1, 1851 to Jan 1, 1883 Asian immigration in the U.S. Jan 1, 1859 Drake successfully drills for oil Jan 1, 1862 Homestead Act Period: Jan 1, 1862 to Jan 1, 1900 exodusters to Kansas Jan 2, 1862 Morill Act Jan 1, 1864 Credit Mobilier formed Jan 1, 1865 13th Amendment ratified Period: Jan 1, 1865 to Jan 1, 1877 Reconstruction of the South Apr 9, 1865 Civil War ends Apr 14, 1865 Lincoln assassinated Apr 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president Jan 1, 1866 14th Amendment ratified Jan 1, 1867 Grange founded Jan 2, 1867 typewrite (Sholes) Jan 1, 1868 Tweed Ring (Tammany Hall) Jan 2, 1868 Ulysses S. Grant elected president Jan 1, 1869 The Transcontinental Railroad Jan 1, 1870 15th Amendment ratified Period: Jan 1, 1870 to Jan 1, 1880 Jim Crow Laws Period: Jan 1, 1870 to Jan 1, 1890 European Immigration in the U.S. (western and northern europe) Jan 2, 1870 Standard Oil formed Jan 1, 1873 street cars and electric subways introduced Jan 1, 1874 barbed wire (Glidden) Jan 1, 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes elected president Jan 2, 1876 Menlo Park established Jan 3, 1876 telephone (Bell) Jan 1, 1877 Munn v. Illinois Jan 2, 1877 The Great Strike (B&O) Jan 1, 1879 mechanical reaper (McCormick) Jan 1, 1880 lightbulb (patented (Edison)) Jan 2, 1880 Pullman sleeper car introduced Jan 2, 1880 James A. Garfield elected president Jan 1, 1881 Chester A. Arthur becomes president Jan 1, 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act Jan 1, 1883 Brooklyn Bridge completed Jan 2, 1883 skyscrapers emerge Jan 1, 1884 timezones organized world-wide Jan 2, 1884 Grover Cleveland elected president (1st time) Jan 1, 1885 Social Gospel Movement Period: Jan 1, 1885 to Jan 1, 1890 bonzanza farming Jan 1, 1886 American Federation of Labor (Gompers) Jan 2, 1886 Haymarket Affair Jan 1, 1887 Interstate Commerce Act Jan 1, 1888 Benjamin Harrison elected president Jan 1, 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act Period: Jan 1, 1890 to Jan 1, 1920 European Immigration in the U.S. (eastern and southern) Jan 1, 1892 Populist Party founded Jan 2, 1892 Homestead Strike Jan 3, 1892 Ellis Island opens Jan 4, 1892 Grover Cleveland elected president (2nd term) Jan 1, 1893 Pullman Strike Jan 1, 1894 American Railway Union (Debs) Jan 1, 1896 William McKinley elected president Jan 2, 1896 end of Populism Jan 3, 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Jan 1, 1899 Carnegie steel is world's largest Jan 1, 1901 Carnegie is first billionaire Jan 1, 1905 Industrial Workers of the World (Haywood) Jan 1, 1909 Uprising of the 20,000 Jan 1, 1910 Angel Island opens Mar 25, 1911 Triangle Factory Fire
