Timeline # 5 1860-1879 By cesar97 Nov 6, 1860 Lincoln Elected Dec 20, 1860 South Carolina seceded from Union Jan 1, 1861 Confedrate States of America formed Apr 14, 1861 Fall of Fort Sumter, South Carolina Jul 21, 1861 First Battle of Bull Run Apr 6, 1862 Battle of Shiloh Jul 2, 1862 Homestead Act & Morrill Land Grant Act passed Sep 17, 1862 Battle of Antietam Dec 13, 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg Jan 1, 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclomation Jun 20, 1863 West Virginia became a state Jul 4, 1863 Vicksburg surrendered Nov 15, 1864 Sherman's "March to the Sea" Apr 9, 1865 Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse Apr 15, 1865 Lincoln assassinated Dec 6, 1865 Thirteenth Amendment ratified Dec 24, 1865 Ku Klux Klan formed Jan 1, 1866 William H. Sylvis founded the national Labor Union Jan 1, 1867 National Granfe formed Jan 1, 1867 Sioux Wars Mar 2, 1867 Military Reconstruction Act passed Mar 30, 1867 U.S. purchased Alaska Feb 24, 1868 Andrew Johnson impeached but not convicted Jul 9, 1868 Fourteenth Amendment Ratified May 10, 1869 Transcontinental railroad completed Dec 1, 1869 Knights of Labor founded Jan 1, 1870 John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil Jan 1, 1870 New York opened elevated railroads Feb 3, 1870 Fifteenth Amendment ratified Jan 1, 1873 Economic Depression Jan 1, 1873 Carnegie Steel founded Jan 1, 1873 Barbed Wire invented Jan 1, 1873 Boss Tweed convicted of corruption Nov 1, 1874 Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) founded Jan 1, 1875 Whiskey Ring Scandal Jan 1, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone Jun 25, 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn Jan 1, 1877 Railroad workers strike nationwide Mar 1, 1877 Compromise of 1877 made Rutherbord B. Hayes President Jan 1, 1879 Thomas A. Edison invented the electric lightbulb
