unit 10

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    New Indian peoples move onto Great Plains

  • Pikes Peak gold rush

  • Nevada Comstock Lode discovered

  • Charles darwin publishes On the Origin of Species

  • congress authorizes transcontinental railroad

  • Morrill Act provides public land for higher education

  • Homestead Act

  • World's first subway system opens in London

  • 2 events

    Sand Creek massacre
    Nevada admitted to Union

  • 2 Events

    National Labor Union organized
    First working transatlantic telegraph cable

  • American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) created

  • National Grange organized

  • 3 events

    Transcontinental railroad joined near Ogden, Utah
    Knights of Labor organized
    Suez Canal completed

  • Wyoming Territory grants women right to vote

  • Standard Oil Company organized

  • Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly published

  • Metaphysical Club meets in Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • 2 events

    Comstock Law
    Construction of New York's Central Park officially completed

  • 3 events

    Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) organized
    Chautauqua education movement launched
    Impressionist artists debut in Paris

  • Bell invents telephone

  • Johns Hopkins University graduate school established

  • 2 events

    Battle of the Little Bighorn
    Colorado admitted to Union

  • New Perce war

  • Edison invents electric light

  • 4 events

    Henry George publishes Progress and Poverty
    Dumbbell tenement introduced
    Mary Baker Eddy establishes Christian Science
    Salvation Army begins work in America

  • 4 events

    Booker T. Washington becomes head of Tuskegee Institute
    American Red Cross founded
    Henry James publishes The Portrait of a Lady
    Barnum and Bailey first join to stage "Greatest Show on Earth"

  • Helen Hunt Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor

  • First immigration-restriction laws passed

  • 2 events

    Brooklyn Bridge completed
    Metropolitan Opera House built in New York

  • Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • Federal government outlaws Indian Sun Dance

  • Chicago's Home Insurance Building built, the world's first skyscraper Linotype invented

  • Canadian Pacific Railway, first transcontinental rail line, completed across Canada

  • Period: to

    Local chapters of Farmers' Alliance formed

  • 3 events

    Haymarket Square bombing
    Wabash case
    American Federation of Labor formed

  • Statue of Liberty erected in New York harbor

  • interstate Commerce Act

  • 2 events

    American Protective Association (APA) formed
    Hatch Act supplements Morrill Act

  • Dawes Severalty Act

  • 2 events

    Edward Bellamy publishes Looking Backward
    American all-star baseball team tours world

  • Oklahoma opened to U.S. citizen settlement

  • Jane Addams founds Hull House in Chicago

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    North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming admitted to Union

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  • 2 events

    William James publishes The Principles of Psychology
    National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) formed

  • 3 events

    Census Bureau declares frontier line ended
    Emergence of People's party (Populists)
    Battle of Wounded Knee

  • 2 events

    Basketball invented
    Stanford University opens

  • Construction of Trans-Siberian Railroad begins

  • Populist party candidate James B. Weaver polls more than 1 million votes in presidential election

  • 4 events

    Lillian Wald opens Henry Street Settlement in New York
    Anti-Saloon League formed
    World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago
    New Zealand grants women right to vote

  • Frederick Jackson Turner publishes "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"

  • "Coxey's Army" marches on Washington Pullman strike

  • Stephen Crane publishes The Red Badge of Courage

  • Utah admitted to UnionMcKinley defeats Bryan for presidency

  • 2 events

    Liberty of Congress opens
    Robert Gould Saw Memorial erected on Boston Common

  • Dingley Tariff Act

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes Women and Economics`

  • Kate Chopin publishes The Awakening

  • Theodore Dreiser publishes Sister Carrie

  • Gold Standard Act

  • Henry Adams privately publishes The Education of Henry Adams

  • Oklahoma admitted to Union

  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded

  • Indians granted U.S. citizenship

  • Indian Reorganization Act

  • United States Steel Corporation formed