1. 1865-1895
By: Shelby Brown
1850 1857
The Bessemer “Sweat shop” was Frederick Law
Process was a a negative Olmstead helped
cheap and connotation for Calver Vaux draw
efficient way to working a plan for
make steel environments that “Greensward”
invented in 1850 were which was
by Henry unacceptably selected to
Bessemer and difficult or unsafe become Central
William Kelley. used beginning in Park in New York
the 1850’s. City.
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http://www.google.com/imgres?q=greensward+plan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweatshop

2. The Homestead
Act was a U.S.
law that provided
160 acres in the
west to the head
of household to
cultivate for 5
years. This land
was reserved Ellis Island in
Native American New York was
land and caused the main
many disputes in immigration
the future. station from 1862
to 1924.
1859 1862 1864
Social Darwinism is an The Chyanne and The stockholders
economic and social Arapaho tribes were
philosophy based on of the Union
attacked in the Sand
Charles Darwin’s Pacific Railroad
theory of evolution by
Creek Reserve on
November 29, 1864 formed the Credit
natural selection,
stating that by Colonel John Mobilizer and
unrestrained business Chivington. 150 contracted it to
competition will ensure were killed and the lay track for three
the survival of the casualties were times the cost
fittest. This was mostly women and
published in Darwin’s and pocket the
children in the Sand
book “On the Origin of Creek Massacre. profits.
Species” and used to
explain Andrew
Carnegie’s success in
http://just-write.contentquake.com/2009/11/19/survival-of-the-facts/
business. http://www.black-hawk-design.net/BlackHawk/washita_river/page27.htm
http://www.cartoonstock.com/vintage/directory/c/credit_mobilier_of_america_scandal.asp

3. In 1867 the
Credit Mobilizer
scandal case
Oliver Hudson went through the
Kelley started the Supreme Court.
Patrons of
Husbandry in
1867 which was
an organization
for farmers that
became more
commonly known
as Grange.
1866 1867
The Grandfather
Grange was another Clause was introduced
The original name for the in 1867 to exclude
Buffalo Soldiers Patrons of some people from the
were members of Husbandry started laws put in place to
the U.S. 10th by Oliver Kelley to keep African
provide a social Americans from
Calvary formed voting. It stated if your
on September 1, outlet and
grandfather could vote
educational reform
1866. Soon all for farmers and
before January 1,
African American 1867 then you could
isolated farm vote too. This law kept
regiments formed families. Another African Americans
in 1866 were assignment of from the polls because
called Buffalo Grange was to their grandfathers had
Soldiers. regulate railroads. been slaves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Soldier
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/118098571/
http://www.allposters.co.uk/-sp/Grandfather-Clause-Posters_i6271756_.htm

4. The Participants in a
Transcontinental trust turn over their
stock to a group of
Railroad was a
trustees and
railroad line William Tweed companies were
linking the began the Tweed entitled to dividends
Atlantic and Ring in 1869. It was on profits earned by
a group of corrupt
Pacific coasts of the trust. John D.
politicians whose Rockefeller used
the United States main scheme was trusts to gain control
that was the construction of of the oil industry in
completed in the New York City America.
1869. Court House which
resulted in a 10
million dollar graft
which was spread
amongst them.
1868 1869
William M. “Boss” A Political
Tweed became Machine is an
head of organized group
Tammany Hall, that controls
New York City’s activities of a
most powerful political party in a
political machine, city.
in 1868. Sitting Bull,
Tatanka Iyotanka,
was the leader of
the Hunkpapa
Sioux and never
signed the Treaty http://www.gloucestercitynews.net/clearysnotebook/2011/11/the-revolution-is-tuesday-time-to-vote-king-george-out-of-office.html
of Fort Laramie in http://mrnussbaum.com/nativeamericans/sittingbull/
http://www.uic.edu/educ/bctpi/historyGIS/blackhills_1wk/bhselfserve/states/index.html
1868. http://bvapush.pbworks.com/w/page/4313744/Tweed%20Ring

5. A Graft is the illegal
use of political
influence for
personal gain
(mainly money). The “Guilded Age” is
a novel by Mark
Twain co-written
with Charles Warner
that showed the
corruption and the
need for wealth
during the 1870’s to
the 1890’s. The
“Guilded Age” is also
another name for
that time period.
1870 1871
In 1870 John D.
In 1870 Frederick Rockefeller The Tweed Ring Jacob Riis became a
Olmstead planned a processed 3% of the was broken in 1871 police reporter and
landscape for U.S.’s crude oil and and William Tweed was appalled at the
Washington D.C. refined 90%. was sentenced to 12 conditions of the
and St. Louis. He
years in prison (his New York slums. He
also designed the
sentence was used his talents to
Boston Park system
reduced to one year) expose the
“The Emerald
and later escaped hardships of the
Necklace”.
but was recaptured city’s poor and bring
in Spain. about the awareness
of the need for
reform.
http://www.solutionevents.com/html/bike_run_path.html
http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/scrapbook/05_gilded_age/index.html
http://www.chancenarrative.com/?attachment_id=765

6. The Battle of
Little Big Horn
occurred in early
In 1874 June 1876. The
George Soux men led by
Armstrong Sitting Bull killed
Custer found all of the Seventh
Calvary including
gold in the George
Black Hills and Armstrong
began the gold Custer. Sitting
rush there. Bull was assisted
by Chief Joseph.
1873 1874 1876
Alexander
In 1876 Graham Bell
Andrew Thomas Alva invented the
Carnegie Edison telephone in
entered the invented the 1876 with the
steel business world’s first help of Thomas
in 1873. research Watson. The
laboratory in telephone
Menlo Park, created many
New Jersey. new jobs for
women.
http://clio.missouristate.edu/wrmiller/HST/HST525/carnegie.htm
http://www.history.nd.gov/textbook/unit3_comculcon/unit3_6_3_custer.html
http://www.dipity.com/gohara/Expansion-and-Industrialization_2/
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/03/dayintech_0310

7. Ragtime is a
blend of African
In 1880 George American
Pullman built a Spirituals and
factory for European Forms
manufacturing
sleepers and other
that originated in
railroad cars on the the saloons of the
Illinois Prairie. He south. African
provided housing American pianist
and most other living and composer
necessities but Scott Joplin
Pullman held his
town under tight
became famous
control. from his ragtime
compositions.
Ragtime led to
1879 1880 rock ‘n’ roll, jazz,
Ida B. Wells Thomas Edison
moved to and rhythm and
had his blues.
Also known as Memphis to be a incandescent
“Old Law teacher and soon light bulb
Tenements”, became a patented in 1880
Dumbbell reporter in 1880. and later invented
Tenements are an entire system
tenements built in for producing and
NYC after the distributing
Tenement House electrical power.
Act of 1879 and
before the NY
Tenement House
Act of 1901. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbbell_tenement
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/new-york-city-tenement-house-everett.html
http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog/this-day-in-geek-history-october-21-2009
http://www.amazon.com/Joplin-The-Ragtime-Dance-Waltzes/dp/B008Y2M0C2

8. George
Westinghouse
began to help
Thomas Edison Mugwumps were
make electricity Republicans who
safer and refused to vote
Republican in the In 1885 Sitting
cheaper in 1881. Bull appeared on
1884 presidential
election because William F.
of political and “Buffalo Bill”
financial Cody’s Wild West
corruption. Show.
1881 1883 1884 1885
Booker T. Joseph Pulitzer was
Washington was a Hungarian
immigrant who
a prominent
bought the “New
African American York World”
educator who newspaper in 1883
believed racism and pioneered
would end once popular innovations
blacks became such as large
Sunday editions,
more prominent
comics, sports
in society. In editions, and
1881 he founded women’s news to
the Tuskegee surpass his main
Normal and competitor William
Industrial Institute Hearst.
http://guides.library.duke.edu/content.php?pid=333750&sid=2729629
in Alabama. http://above-the-norm.blogspot.com/2012/04/buffalo-bill-cody.html

9. The Haymarket
Affair occurred on
May 4th 1886 a
riot gathered at
Chicago’s
Haymarket
Square to protest
police brutality.
Several police
officers were
killed and many
workers died in
the chaos.
1886 1887 1888
Settlement George Eastman
Houses were The Dawes Act The Interstate invented the
founded by was a law Commerce Kodak camera
Charles Stover enacted in in Commission was and sold it to the
and Stanton Coit 1887 that was a group of five public for $25,
in NYC in 1886. intended to men established and they could
“Americanize” to uphold the ship their film to
Samuel Gompers Native Americans Interstate his processing
led the Cigar by distributing Commerce Act of plant to have
Maker’s reservation land 1887. them developed
International to individual for only $10.
Union to join with owners.
other craft unions
http://homicide.northwestern.edu/historical/movements/haymarket/
in 1886. http://www.nush.org/AboutUs/timeline.htm
http://e-ducation.net/video.htm

10. The Ghost Dance
is a ritual to
prevent poverty
and cure disease.
It was also said
to restore their
lands and way of
life.
In 1890 Sitting
Bull resisted
arrest and was
killed in the
struggle.
1889 1890
The Sherman
In 1889 Jane Antitrust Act On December 28,
Addams founded enacted in 1890 1890 the Sioux
Chicago’s Hull made it illegal to and George
House with Ellen form a trust that Custer and his
Gates Starr. They interfered with Seventh Calvary
were some of the free trade fought at the
most influential between states or Battle of
women in the other countries. Wounded Knee.
settlement house The entire
movement. Seventh Calvary
was killed along
with 300 unarmed
Sioux.
http://www.american-architecture.info/USA/CHICAGO/CHIC-LS/CHIC-LS-041.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~zebrec/NH_Native_History.htm
http://www.lpusd.k12.ca.us/rm1/online/hotpotatoestav/TAV5-1f.htm

11. 1892 1893
Ida B. Wells' Populism was the Scabs were Urbanization was
reporting career “People’s Party” strikebreakers used the growth of
when Henry Frick, of
took off on March founded in 1892. cities due to the
the Carnegie Steel
9, 1892 when Company’s technological
three of her Homestead plant in boom in the late
friends were Pennsylvania, stated 19th century and
lynched and she he was going to cut growing industrial
began writing, wages and a strike strength(mostly in
broke out on June
speaking, and 29, 1892 that left
the Midwest and
organizing for three detectives and Northeast).
civil rights. nine workers dead.
http://www.peacebuttons.info/new/E-News/peacehistorynovember.htm
http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/bookhub/2044?e=trowbridge2_1.0-ch03_s02
http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/faculty/hodgson/Courses/so11/population/urbanization.htm

12. William Hearst
purchased the New
In 1895 W.E.B. York “Morning
Du Bois was the Journal” in 1895 and
first African sought to outdo his
American to biggest competition,
Joseph Pulitzer by
receive a filling his paper with
doctorate at lies of scandals and
Harvard cruelty to attract
University. readers.
1894 1895
In 1894 Eugene The Pullman
V. Debs’ Strike was a
American violent strike in
Railway Union 1894 to protest
won their strike George Pullman’s
for higher wages tight control over
and added to the his workers.
momentum of
union
organization.
http://utopiaclass.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/due-929-weekly-journal-5/
http://www.lemaze-studio.com/cgi-bin/webdata_pro.pl?_cgifunction=search&_layout=canvas&products.canvas=yes&products.artist3=Rhead,%20Louis%20John
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_dubois.html

13. July 8,1896
William Bryan,
the Democratic
nominee of the William Hearst
1896 election, and Joseph
delivered the Pultzier’s
“Cross of Gold” competing
speech opposing newspapers
the gold began to sell over
standard. 1 million copies
per day in 1898.
1896 1898 1899
William McKinley Plessy vs. In 1899 Andrew
was the Furguson was the Carnegie’s Steel
Republican 1896 Supreme Company
candidate in the Court Case that manufactured
1896 election and said segregation more steel than
won the of races in public all the factories in
presidency with was legal and did Great Britain.
the support of the not violate the
east which was 14th Amendment.
about 7 million This established
votes. the doctrine
“Separate but
Equal” and
permitted this for http://latefruit.wordpress.com/tag/political-cartoons/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/gayphotographers/discuss/72157626733984279/
almost 60 years. http://mintees.com/talk/197423-graphic-work-august-2011/

14. Angel Island in
the San
Francisco Bay
was the primary
immigration port
for Asian
immigrants
between 1910
and 1940. These
immigrants
endured much
harsher
conditions than at
Ellis Island.
1903 1905 1910
On December In 1905 W.E.B.
17,1903 Orville Du Bois founded
and Wilbur the Niagara
Wright had their Movement which
first successful insisted that
plane flight at African
Kitty Hawk, North Americans get a
Carolina. It liberal arts
covered 120 feet education so the
and lasted 12 African American
seconds. community would
have more
educated leaders.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/classic/dawn-of-flight-timeline2.htm
http://www.kansasheritage.org/crossingboundaries/pagex6c1.html
http://angelisland.org/history/