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Morrill Act of 1862
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Homestead Act
Said settlers could get 160 acres, live on it 5 years, and improve it, only paying $30 a year -
Grant elected president
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Ohio State Founded
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Credit Mobilier Scandal
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Tweed Crisis
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Panic of 1873
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"Guilded Age" starts
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
Guaranteed equal treatment in public places -
Hayes-Tilden Standoff
Grant reminded of 2 term tradition -
Johns Hopkins founded
First graduate school -
Rutherford B. Hayes elected president
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Comprimise of 1877
Resolved Hayes election -
James A. Garfield elected president
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Garfield shot and killed
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Chester A. Arthur becomes president
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Chinese exclusion Act
Pretty much prohibited Chinese immigration -
New Immigration
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Pendleton Act
Civil service reform -
Cleveland elected president
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Haymarket Square
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Dawes Severalty Act
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Benjamin Harrison elected president
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Jim Crow Laws
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Prohibits combinations that restrict trade -
National American Women Suffrage Association founded
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Battle of Wounded Knee
Indians massacred -
Grover Cleveland elected again
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Seperate but equal facilities -
William McKinley elected president
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NAACP founded