Railroads

  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act grants 160 acres to settlers who have worked the land for 5 years.
  • National Grange Organized

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • Great Sioux War Begins

  • Battle of the Little Big Horn

  • Great Sioux War Ends

  • Nation Divided Into Four Time Zones

  • Elk v. Wilkins

  • Haymarket affair

  • Interstate Commerce Commission Created

  • Dawes Act

  • United States v. E. C. Knight Co.

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