Pre-History 1855-1900

By Sammy the Samverian King

  • Dred Scott decision

  • Oil in Pennsylvania

  • Silver discovered in NC Comstock Lode

  • Abraham Lincoln elected 16th president

  • Period: to

    Southern states secede from the Union

  • Lincoln declares insurrection, blocks Southern ports

  • US troops defeated at Bull Run

  • Gen Robert E Lee becomes commander in chief Confederate Army

  • Lee retreates to Va after many casualties at Battle of Antietam

  • Stonewall Jackson dies by friendly fire

  • Confederates defeated at Gerrysburg

  • Grant is US commander in chief

  • Sherman marches thru Georgia

  • Lincoln reelected

  • 13th Amendment to abolish slavery is ratified

  • Andrew Johnson becomes 17th president

    After Lincoln is assassinated

  • Johnson outlines Reconstruction

    pardons former confederates who swear loyalty to US

  • Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

  • last armed Confederate force surrenders in New Orleans

  • Civil Rights Act guaranteed citizenship and equal rights to black Americans

  • Ku Klux Klan forms in Tennessee

  • Nebraska 37th state

  • US buys Alaska from Russia

    $7.2 million

  • First typewriter

  • Congress impeaches Pres Johnson.

    Senate acquits him by one vote

  • 14th Amendment gives federal protection of individual rights

  • Ulysses S Grant becomes 18th president

  • 15th Amendment gives black males right to vote

  • Susan B Anthony begins suffrage movement

  • Transcontinental railroad is completed in Utah

  • First women to vote

    Women in Wyoming territory are first to vote

  • Congress repeals NW Ordinance.

    Indian tribes are no longer independent nations

  • Barnum & Bailey circus opens

  • Great Fire in Chicago

  • Yellowstone is first national park

  • 500K immigrants enter the US

  • Montgomery ward - first mail-order catalog

  • First steel bridge over Mississippi

    Eads Bridge in St Louis

  • Civil Rights act gives blacks equal right in public places

  • Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

  • Litte Bighorn, Montana

    Sioux and Cheyenne Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat Custer's cagalry

  • Rutherford Hayes 19th president

  • A G Bell patents telephone

  • Thomas Edison lightbulb

  • Woolworth 5&10 cent store

  • First skyscraper

    Leitner Bldg, 16 stories in Chicago

  • McCormick's reaping machine factory

    makes 100 per day

  • Census - US has over 50M, NYCity over 1M

  • Eastman cameras

  • Booker T washington - tuskegee Institute in AL

  • garfield 20th president - assassinated

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Congress passes act forbidding Chinese to enter US for 10 years

  • Brooklyn Bridge - longest suspension bridge compleed

  • SC rules Civil Rights Act unconstitutional

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

  • Waterman fountain pen

  • Statue of Liberty dedicated

  • Geronimo surrenders to US troops in AZ

  • regulates railroads

  • Reservation lands divided up to compensate Native Americans

  • 2M acres of Indian land in OK - to white settlers

  • Electric light installed in White House

  • MT ND, SD, WA becoe states

  • areas become federally protected national parks

  • ID, WY become states

  • last of Native American resistance

    Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee, South dakota

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    to curb monopolies

  • US annexes Hawaii islands

  • Frederick Douglass dies

  • Plessy V Ferguson

    SC rules segregation by race is constitutional

  • Gold discovered in Yukon

  • Utah 45th State

  • McKinley 25th president

  • US declares war on Spain

  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    by L Frank Baum

  • Army Dr Walter Reed discovers mosquitoes spread yellow fever

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