US History timeline

By Spanglerlee

  • Morrill Act of 1862

  • Homestead Act

    Said settlers could get 160 acres, live on it 5 years, and improve it, only paying $30 a year

  • Grant elected president

  • Ohio State Founded

  • Credit Mobilier Scandal

  • Tweed Crisis

  • Panic of 1873

  • "Guilded Age" starts

  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union

  • 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

  • Comprimise of 1877

    Resolved Hayes election

  • James A. Garfield elected president

  • Garfield shot and killed

  • Chester A. Arthur becomes president

  • Chinese exclusion Act

    Pretty much prohibited Chinese immigration

  • New Immigration

  • Pendleton Act

    Civil service reform

  • Cleveland elected president

  • Haymarket Square

  • Dawes Severalty Act

  • Benjamin Harrison elected president

  • Jim Crow Laws

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Prohibits combinations that restrict trade

  • National American Women Suffrage Association founded

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Indians massacred

  • Grover Cleveland elected again

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Seperate but equal facilities

  • William McKinley elected president

  • NAACP founded

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