Unit 7 Timeline by Dylan Calhoun & Robert Kichler

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  • Pike's Peak

    Gold is discovered on Pike's Peak in present day Colorado. This discovery starts a gold rush and the slogan "Pike's Peak or Bust!"

  • Comstock Lode

    The Comstock Lode is discovered in Nevada. The Comstock Lode contained a huge amount of silver anf gold.

  • Morrill Act

    The Morrill Act provided for public land for colleges.

  • Rail Roads

    The transcontinental is authorized by Congress to conect the east and west.

  • Election of 1868

    Grant defeats Seymour for the presidency in the election of 1868

  • Gold Market

    Fisk and Gould corner the gold market.

  • Women's Rights

    The territory of Wyoming grants women the right to vote. This is a huge step forward for women's rights.

  • Standard Oil

    John D. Rockafeller creates the Standard Oil company.

  • Boss Tweed

    Boss Tweed is involved in a scadal in New York.

  • Credit Mobilier

    Crédit Mobilier scandal exposed
    Liberal Republicans break with Grant.
    Grant defeats Greeley for the presidency.

  • Panic of 1873

    The United States in thrown in to a panic.

  • Temperance

    The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is formed to help fight drunkeness in America.

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    General Armstrong Custard led his men into a trap set by the Sioux. Custard and his men were all killed. Custard's Last Stand.

  • Compromise of 1877

    The Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction in the South. Rail road strikes completely stop the nations economy.

  • Election of 1880

    Garfield defeats Hancock for the presidency.

  • Assassination of Garfield.

    Garfield is assassinated by Charles Guiteau in the back. Chester A. Arthur becomes president.

  • Tuskegee

    Booker T. Washington become the head of the Tuskegee Institute. this is one of the best black colleges in the U.S.

  • Immigration

    Some of the first laws to limit immigration are passed.

  • Civil Rights

    Pendleton Act sets up Civil Service Comission.

  • 1890

    The Census Bureau declares the frontier line ended. The Battle of Wounded Knee is fought between the Army and the Indians.

  • Trust Busters

    The Sherman Anti-Trust Act is passed to try and stop the monopolies.

  • Strikes

    Homestead steel workers strike. Idaho silver miners' strike.

  • Tariffs

    Wilson-Gorman Tariff contains income tax provisions that were declared uncontitutional in 1895.

  • J.P. Morgan

    J.P. Morgan's banking gsyndicate loans the government 65 million dollars worth of gold.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    This court case makes the practice of seperate but equal okay.

  • Election of 1896

    Mckinley defeats Bryan to become president.

  • Gold Standard

    The Gold Standard Act sets the standard that all U.S. currency is backed by gold in the federal reserve.

  • NAACP

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded to help fight for civil right of blacks in America.