U.S. History Timeline (1877- Contemporary) By adcox 1862 Homestead Act 1869 Transcontinental Railroad Completed 1870 Industrialization Begins to Boom 1876 Telephone Invented 1877 Reconstruction Ends Period: 1877 to 1890 Gilded Age 1878 Light Bulb Invented 1887 Dawes Act 1890 Klondike Gold Rush
