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Invention of the telegraph
Samuel Morse the American inventer the telegraph. -
Transcontinental Railroad
The job was large , to lay tracks more than 1,700 miles across hot plains. The Union Pacific Company layed track westward from Omaha, Nebraska, the Central Pacific Company eastward from Sacramento, california. -
End of Civil War
The Civil War was between the North and South and it Abolished slavery. -
Homestead Act
Congress passed the HA gave 160 free acres of land -
End of Reconstruction
Reconstruction is the term also accomplishing the rebuilding. Southern Economy and Society needed rebuilding. -
Boss Tweed Jailed
Thomas Nast exposed Tweed Ring's cartoons for Harper's Weekly, Tweed was convicted and senteced to prison. Twee Ring controlled the police, courts, and some newspapers. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
A treaty that was supposed to bring peace. remained and erupted in more fighting years later. -
Telephone is invented
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. -
Chines Exclusion Act
The Chines Exclusion Act was a law to limit immigration. Prohibited Chinese workers entering the United States -
Time Zones are created
1883 railroad companies dvided country into four time zones.Each Zone one hour apart from the zones on either side. -
Pendleton Act
This act established the Civil Service Commission set up competitive examinations federal jobs. -
Dawes Act
It eliminate Americans regarded two weaknesses Nativ American life. -
Sharman Anti-Trust Act
Law to prohibit trusts and monopolies. Law sought "to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraint and monopoly." -
Battle of Wonded Knee
Hundred Lakota Sioux fled after Sitting Bull's death. This is a creek in southwestern South Dakota. -
Ellis Island
In East the Immigrants processed at Castle Garden, fort on Manhattan Island. Ellis Island is in the New York Harbor. -
Model T
Henry Ford, invented the car.