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Homestead
Act
1862
Passed by congress,
offering 160 acres in
the west to any citizen
or intended citizen who
was head of the
household and would
cultivate the land for 5
years.
1857 1862 1863
George Pullman Angel
March 3, 1831-October 19,1887 Island
He designed and 1863-1949
manufactured the Pullman An Island in San
Sleeping Car, and founded Francisco Bay that
a town, Pullman, for the was the chief
workers who immigration station
manufactured it. on the U.S. western
coast.
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3. Sand Creek Oliver Kelly
Massacre January 20,1826-January 20, 1913
November 9, 1864 Considered the “Father” of
The 700-men force of Colorado the Order of the Patrons
Territory militia attacked and
of Husbandry. November
destroyed a village of friendly
Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in 15, 1867, he laid the
southeastern Colorado Territory, groundwork to build a new
killing/mutilating an estimated 70- foundation for American
163 Indians, about
Agriculture through the
2/3 whom were women and children.
organization of the Grange.
1864 1866 1867
Wild Bill Hickok
(May 27, 1837-August 2, 1876)
Gained his fame as a
gunfighter, deputy U.S.
Marshal at Fort Riley (1866),
marshal at Hails, Kansas
(1869), marshal of Abilene
(1871). He went on a tour with
Buffalo Bill and was murdered
by Jack McCall.
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4. Transcontinental Fredrick Laws
Railroad Olmsted
1869 April 26, 1822-August 28, 1903
A railroad line linking the Journalist, socialist, public
Atlantic and the Pacific administrator and landscape
Coasts of the United States, designer. He designed the
completed 1869. Biltmore House and Central
Park New York in 1869,
1868 1869
Tweed Ring
April 3, 1823- April 12, 1878 George
Widely known as
“Boss” Tweed, Westinghouse
October 6, 1846-March 12, 1914
American Politician
Entrepreneur and
most notable for being
engineer who invented
the “Boss” of Tammany
the railway air brake and
Hall.(1868)
was a pioneer of the
http://tinyurl.com/bf4t3ct electrical company.
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Grandfather Chief Joseph
Clause March 3,1840-September 21, 1904
The Leader of the Walt-lam-
1870
Wat-kain band of Ne z Perce on
A provision that exempts certain
the 1870s in a desperate
people from a law from a basis
attempt to reach Canada rather
of previously existing
than being put on a reservation.
circumstances- especially a
He was forced to surrender by
clause formerly in some southern
U.S. Troops just before reaching
states' constitution that
the border.
exempted whites from the strict
voting requirements used to keep
African Americans from the
polls. 1870
1872
Great Plains
1870s-1880s
The grasslands extending through the
west-central portion of the United National Credit'
States. Farmer's Alliance Mobilier'
John D. 1870s-1880s
1872
Rockefeller An organized agrarian
A joint stock company,
July 8, 1839-May 23, 1937
economic movement among formed for general banking
Industrialist and American farmers that business, or for the
developed and flourished. construction of public works,
philanthropist. In the by means of loans or personal
1870 he founded the estate, after the manner of
Standard Oil Company Credit' Foncier on real
and ran it aggressively estate, practice not really
observed.
6. Jim Crow Laws Alexander Telephone
Enacted in 1876 1876
Laws enacted by Southern Graham Belle An instrument that
States and local 1847-1922 converts both voice and
governments to separate Inventor, born in other sound signals into a
white and black people in Sscotland, who invented form that can be
the telephone. transmitted to remote
public and private places.
locations that receives
and then reconverts into
sound signals.
1876
Battle of
Little Big George Armstrong
Custer
Horn December 5,1839- June 25,1876
1876 A United States Army officer
A battle in Montana and cavalry commander in the
near the Little Big American Civil War and the
Horn River between Indian Wars. Graduated last
the the United States in his class. He was killed
Cavalry (Custer) and during the Battle of Little Big
several groups of Horn.
Native Americans.
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Southern Vaudeville
1877
Alliance Stage entertainment
1877 offering a variety of short
Helped farmers in the west acts such as slapstick
and south deal with affliction turns, song-and-dance
by falling prices, mounting routines, and juggling
debt, and climbing interest performances; a variety
rates. show.
1877 1878
Gilded Age Jacob Riis
May 3,1849-May 26,1914
Started in 1877
A danish American social
The period following the Civil
reformer, “muckraking”
War, characterized by a
journalist and social
greatly expanding economy and
documentary
the emergence of plutocratic
photographer. He was a
influences in government and
police reporter in 1878.
society.
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8. Dumbbell Robber Barons Tammany Hall
1880
Late 1800s-early1900s
Tenements First used by an anti- Political organization within the
1879 monopoly pamphlet in Democratic Party in New York
Are tenements built in New which Kansas Farmers City, originally founded as a
York City and the Tenement benevolent society in 1789, was
applied the term to
notorious for the corruption in
House Act of 1879 and before railroad magnets. city and state politics that it
the New York State Tenement fostered in the 19th century and
House Act of 1901. early 20th century.
1879 1880
Thomas Alva Joseph Pulitzer
April 10,1847-October 29,1911
Edison A Hungarian American
1874-1931 newspaper publisher of
U.S. Inventor; inventions the St. Louis Post
included: photograph (1877), Dispatch and the New
incandescent electric lamp York World, introduced
(1879), microphone (1877), the techniques of “new
kinetoscope (1897). journalism” to the
http://tinyurl.com/agetxr7 newspaper he acquired in
the 1880s..
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Mugwumps
1884
Sitting Bull A person who wishes to
1831-December 15,1839
remain aloof or
A Hunk papa Lakota Sioux holy
independent, esp. from
man who lead his people as a
political parties; A
tribal chief during years of
Republican who in 1884
the resistance of the United
refused to support James
States government policies.
G. Blaine, the Republican
nominee for president.
1881 1884
Booker T. Mark Twain
Washington November 30,1835-April 21,1910
April 5,1868-November 14,1915 American author and
African American educator, humorist. Organized the
author, orator, and adviser to C.L. Webster Publishing
the Republican Presidents, Company in 1884, lost his
dominant teacher in the fortune to its failure in
African American community 1904.
from 1890-1915. Founded the
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Haymarket
Affair
May 4, 1886 Mail Order
Refers to the afternoon of a
Catalog
bombing that took place at a
1886
labor demonstration.
A publication containing a list
of general merchandise from a
company.
1886
Colored Farmers
Alliance Samuel Gompers
1886
January 20,1850-December 31,1924
An alliance of African American English-American who was a
farmers that worked to help its cigar maker and became a
members economically by labor union leader, key figure
setting up cooperatives in American Labor History.
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11. Interstate Commerce
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Commission
1887
The governmental commission charged
with making and enforcing regulations
conforming Interstate drivers.
1887 1888
Dawes Act Andrew Carnegie
1887
November 25, 1835-August 11,1919
A law that was intended to U.S. Industrialist and
“Americanize” Native philanthropist who endowed
Americans by distributing educations and public
reservation land to individual libraries and research trusts.
owners Founded the Carnegie Steel
Company in 1888.
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George Eastman
July 12,,1854-March 14,1932
Innovator, entrepreneur, founded the Ida B. Wells
Eastman Kodak Company in 1889, and July 16,1862-March 25,1931
popularized the use of roll film, helping African American Journalist, newspaper
to bring photography to the mainstream. editor, suffragist, with her husband, a
civil rights movement leader. She was a
partner in the Free Speech and
Headlight. (1889)
1889
Vanderbilt Family Jane Adams
1889-1895
September 6,1860-May 21,1935)
A very prominent family, dutch, Pioneer settlement worker,
empires of railroads and founder of Hull House in
shipping, had a lot of estates, Chicago (1889), public
including the Biltmore House philosopher, sociologist,
(1889-1895). author, and a leader in women
suffrage and world peace.
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Ragtime
1890
A style of American music having this Sherman
rhythm-a style of jazz piano music,
developed by Scott Joplin, having a two-
Antitrust Act
1890
four rhythm base and a syncopated
A law that was intended to prevent the
melody . creation of monopolies by making it
illegal to establish trusts that
interfered with free trade.
1890
William Jennings Wounded Knee
Bryan December 29. 1890
March 19,1860-July 26,1925 Some 200 Native Americans
Leading politician from the are massacred by U.S.
1890s until his death. A Troops.
dominant force in the populist
wing of the Democratic Party,
standing 3 times as its http://tinyurl.com/b9kkwqh
candidate for President.
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Ellis Island
1892-1942
Upper New York Bay, a gateway for
millions of immigrants into the United
States as the nation's busiest immigrant
inspection station.
Pullman Strike
1894
A nationwide conflict in the summer
between the new American Railroads
that occurred in the United States.
1892 1894 1895
Omaha Platform William
July 4, 1890
The party program adopted at Randolph Hearst
the formative convention of April 29,1863-August 14,1951
the Populist Party held in United States publisher
Omaha, Nebraska. whose introduction of large
headlines and sensational
reporting changed American
journalism. Purchased the
New York Morning Journal in
1895.
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“Cross of Gold Speech”
July 9, 191896
Delivered by William Jennings Bryan at William McKinley
the Democratic National Convention in January 29,1843-September 14, 1901
Chicago. It supported Bimetallism, 25th President, assassinated, Spanish
American War (1898), Annexation of
helped catapult Bryan to the Democratic Hawaii (1898), Open Door Policy' Boxer
Party's presidential nomination. Rebellion(1899-1900), Gold Standard
Act (1900)
1896 1900 1901
Plessy vs. W.E.B. T.
Ferguson Washington
1896
February 23, 1868-August 27,1963
Case in which the Supreme An American sociologist,
Court ruled that separation of historian, civil rights activist,
the races in public author and editor. Co-
accommodations was legal, thus founder of the sustained
establishing the “separate but heavier than air human
equal” doctrine. fighter on December 17,1903.
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Eugene V. Debs
November 5, 1855-October 20,1926
Union Leader, one of the founding
members of the Industrial workers of
the world (1905), several times
candidate for the Socialist Party of
America for president.
1903 1905 1917
Orville and Literacy Test
Wilbur Wright Began in 1917
December 17, 1903 Refers to the government
Inventors who invented the practice of testing the
first successful airplane and literacy of potential citizens
making the first controlled, at the federal level, and
powered, and sustained potential voters at state
heavier-than-air human flight. level.
