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Expanding United States culture westward
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James Marshall discovers gold in California and begins the Gold Rush.
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President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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Time after Civil War where America was fixing itself
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The 14th Amendment was passed. It granted equal rights to African Americans.
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The 15th Amendment was passed. It granted African American men the right to vote.
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Standard Oil was founded by John D. Rockefeller.
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America took over lots of countries
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An army with Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians defeat General Custer and his cavalry.
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Period of time where the rich and politicians held the most power
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The federal government broke up tribal territories.
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Lakota Indians were massacred by the U.S. Army.
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Protests against manufacture, transportation, and selling of alcohol.
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Period of time that was full of political reform and activists
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Carnegie Steel was founded by Andrew Carnegie.
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the 14th Amendment, and this came to be known as "separate but equal."
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The queen of Hawaii was overthrown.
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The Spanish-American War was a war between America and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule, and gained America more land.
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Theodore Roosevelt organized the first voluntary cavalry in the Spanish-American War, the Rough Riders.
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The extremely wealthy companies were disbanded.
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The Jungle, a novel by Upton Sinclair, was published to show corrupt meatpacking industry.
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This prohibited the sale of wrongly-branded food and drugs.
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It was the deadliest industrial disaster in Manhattan's history. The factory workers were trapped in the building due to no building safety codes.
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Standard Oil, owned by John Rockefeller, was broken up by Supreme Court rule.
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The symbol of the United States technological and economical power, the Panama Canal, is finished.
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Known as Wick's Bill, this document tried to address child labor by prohibiting purchasing of items from factories with child workers.
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The 19th Amendment was adopted as an Amendment. It gave everyone, especially women, the right to vote.
