January 1 1865-1905 December 31

By Evan Cole
  • standard Oil organized by rockefeller

    standard Oil organized by rockefeller

    rockefeller's oil industry was the first great U.S. business trust.
  • jane addams opens hull house

    jane addams opens hull house

    Jane addams was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
  • alaska was purchased by the U.S. from russia

    alaska was purchased by the U.S. from russia

    Russia wanted to sell its Alaskan territory, fearing that it might be seized if war broke out with Britain.
  • assassination of president licoln

    assassination of president licoln

    Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close.
  • statue of liberty

    statue of liberty

    he Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France.

  • treaty sighned

    President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal—a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.