Timeline #5 By Mialedia Mar 16, 1847 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone Dec 20, 1860 South Carolina seceded from the Union Apr 12, 1861 Fall of Fort Sumter, South Carolina Apr 12, 1861 First Battle of Bull Run Dec 8, 1861 Confederate States of America formed Apr 6, 1862 Battle of Shiloh Sep 17, 1862 Battle of Antietam Dec 8, 1862 Carnegie Steel founded Dec 8, 1862 Homestead Act & Morrill Land Grant Act passed Dec 11, 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg Jan 1, 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation Jun 20, 1863 West Virginia became a state Jul 1, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg Jul 4, 1863 Vicksburg surrendered Period: Nov 15, 1864 to Dec 21, 1864 Sherman's "March to the Sea" Apr 9, 1865 Lee surrendred to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse Apr 14, 1865 Lincoln assasinated Dec 7, 1865 Thirteenth Amendment ratified Dec 8, 1865 John D. Rockerfeller founded Standard Oil Dec 24, 1865 Ku Klux Klan formed Mar 2, 1867 Military Reconstruction Act passed Oct 18, 1867 Thomas A. Edison invented the electric lightbulb Oct 18, 1867 U.S purchased Alaska Dec 9, 1867 National Grange formed May 16, 1868 Andrew Johnson impeached but not convicted Jul 9, 1868 Fifteenth Amendment ratified Jul 9, 1868 Fourteenth Amendment ratified Dec 9, 1868 William H. Sylvis found the National Labor Union May 10, 1869 Transcontinental railroad completed Dec 8, 1869 Knights of Labor founded Period: Dec 8, 1873 to Dec 8, 1879 Economic Depression Nov 9, 1874 Women's Christian Temperance Union founded Nov 24, 1874 Barbed Wire invented Jun 25, 1875 Battle of Little Horn Dec 9, 1875 New York opened elevated railroads Dec 9, 1875 Whiskey Ring Scandal Nov 23, 1876 Boss Tweed convicted of corruption Period: Dec 9, 1876 to Dec 9, 1877 Sioux Wars Period: Jul 9, 1877 to Sep 9, 1877 Railroad workers strike nationwide Dec 8, 1877 Compromise of 1877 made Rutherford B. Hayes President
