Angel island

Timeline Review

By hfxnajdek

  • Invetion of the Telegraph

  • Homestead Act

    The homestead act gace 160 acres free to a settler who paid a filing fee and lived on the land and farmed it for 5 years.

  • End of the Civil War

    The Civil War was ended at the Appomattox court house, when General Lee surrendered to General Grant.

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    The connection of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific bridged the 2000 miles to the Missouri River, and the four to six months time taken by the overland pioneers was reduced to six days. At once the Pacific States were transformed, and Western life gradually caught up with the life and aspirations of the East.

  • Boss Tweed Put in Jail

    Boss Tweed was jaild in 1873 – 75 in New York, but escaped after he was having a family meeting but was caught and faced trail and then jailed in 1876 – 78 where he died.

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    The last victory for the Sioux indians before being put on a reserve and sent to the indian school

  • Telephone

  • End of Reconstruction

    Reconstruction end in 1877, when Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president in a deal to end the Reconstruction period fo rthe south

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    This was a law that prohibited chinese immigrants/workers from entering the United States for 10 years.

  • Time Zones

    In 1883 the railroad companies didvided the country into 4 different time zones. But it was until 1918 that congress passed a law making this official.

  • Pendleton Act

    This act was passed by congress which established the Civil Serive Commission.

  • Dawes Act

    This law aimed to eliminate what the Americans regaured as the two weaknesses of the Native American life

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    This law was passed to prohibit monoplies

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Wounded Kneewas ypically acknowledged as the last battle of the “Indian Wars". The battle of Wounded Knee was also known as Massacre of Wounded Knee

  • Ellis Island Opens

    Ellis Island became the nation's premier federal immigration station. In operation until 1954, the station processed over 12 million immigrant steamship passengers.

  • Model T