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Gilded Age Timeline-Eliana Munoz

  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    Were the adult head of the house could get 160 acres of land in the western coast of the U.S
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    Transcontinental Railroad

    A railroad that went from the east coast to the west coast. This led to a bigger expansion to the west. The central pacific and the Union Pacific railroad were the two companies to build it.
  • Rockefeller incorporates Standard oil

    Rockefeller incorporates Standard oil

    Standard oil had been found in Columbus, Ohio in 1863. John Rockefeller found this company.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    This amendment allows anyone of race, color, or if they were a previous slave to vote.
  • Indian tribes get unreconized as different nations.

    The government no longer sees Native American tribes as independent nations. Then they were sent to negotiate.
  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush

    The discovery in gold leads to people trespassing on Black Hill, Native American territory. Popular states being California, Colorado, Idaho, eastern Oregon, and western New Mexico.
  • Battle of Little bighorn

    Battle of Little bighorn

    The sioux Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy horse battle George A. Custer and 265 officers at Little horn river. Almost all officers die, including Custer.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    An act that wouldn't allow Chinese people to come to the U.S because they kept taking jobs that pure Americans could have.
  • American Federation of Labor

    American Federation of Labor

    An alliance of multiple independent craft unions.
  • Wounded knee massacre

    Wounded knee massacre

    A bunch of Lakota people were massacred by soldiers in South Dakota. This was to repress the plain Indians. There were a bunch of women and children were then killed. This stopped all organization of Indians and they submitted to the U.S government.