Wendell timeline 1863-1917 By Wxf5664 1855 Henry bessemer revolutionizes steel making Jan 1, 1863 Emancipation proclamation May 13, 1865 End of civil war 1870 Standard oil company- John D Rockefeller 1877 Alexander graham bell telephone 1877 Great strike of 1877 1878 Thomas Edison lightbulb 1882 Chinese exclusion act 1886 Haymarket affair 1886 Statue of Liberty unveiled 1890 Sherman antitrust act 1892 Ellis island opened 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson 1900 Tenements 1901 Roosevelt’s square deal 1901 Pan American exposition 1904 Roosevelt corollary 1906 The jungle 1909 Dollar diplomacy 1910 Angel island opened 1913 16th and 17th amendments 1913 Federal reserve act of 1913 1913 Moral diplomacy 1914 Clayton antitrust act 1916 National park service 1917 US enters world war 1
