Ch. 25-32 Flashcards
Morrill Act provides public land for higher education
1862
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
1859
World’s first subway system opens in London
1863
ASPCA created
1866
Wyoming Territory grants women right to vote
1869
Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly published
1871
Metaphysical Club meets in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1872
Comstock Law
1873
WCTU organized
1874
Chautauqua education movement launched
1874
Impressionist artists debut in Paris
1874
Johns Hopkins university’s graduate school established
1876
Henry George publishes Progress and Poverty
1879
Dumbbell tenement introduced
1879
Mary Baker Eddy establishes Christian Science
1879
Salvation Army begins work in America
1879
Booker T. Washington becomes head of Tuskegee Institute
1881
American Red Cross founded
1881
Barnum and Bailey first join to stage “Greatest Show on Earth”
1881
First immigration-restriction laws passed
1882
Brooklyn Bridge completed
1883
Met Opera House built in New York
1883
Mark Twink publishes The Adventures of Fuckleberry Finn
1884
Louis Sullivan builds first skyscraper in Chicago
1885
Linotype invented
1885
Statue of Liberty built
1886
APA formed
1887
Hatch Act supplements Morrill Act
1887
Edward Bellamy publishes Looking backward
1888
American All-star baseball team tours world
1888
Jane Addams founds Hull House in Chicago
1889
NAWSA formed
1890
Basketball invented
1891
Lillian Wald opens Henry Street Settlement in NY
1893
Anti-Saloon League formed
1893
World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago
1893
New Zealand grants women right to vote
1893
Liberty of Congress opens
1897
Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes Women and Economics
1898
Kate Chopin publishes The Awakening
1899
Theodore Dreiser publishes Sister Carrie
1900
Henry Adams privately publishes The Education of Henry Adams
1907
National Association for the Advancement of Colored people founded
1910
New Indian peoples move onto Great Plains
ca. 1700-1800
Pikes Peak gold rush
1858
Nevada Comstock Lode discovered
1859
Homestead Act
1862
Sand Creek massacre
1864
Nevada admitted to union
1864
National Grange organized
1867
Battle or the Little Bighorn
1876
Colorado admitted to Union
1876
Nez Perce war
1877
Helen Hunt Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor
1881
Federal government outlaws Indian Sun Dance
1884
Canadian Pacific Railway, first transcontinental rail line, completed across Canada
1885
Local chapters of Farmer’s Alliance formed
1885-1890
Dawes Severalty Act
1887
Oklahoma opened to US citizen settlement
1889
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming admitted to Union
1889-1890
Census Bureau declares frontier line ended
1890
Emergence of People’s Party (Populists)
1890
Battle of Wounded Knee
1891
Construction of Trans-Siberian Railroad begins
1891
Populist party candidate James B. Weaver polls more than 1 million votes in presidential election
1892
Frederick Jackson Turner publishes “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”
1893
“Coxey’s Army” marches on Washington
1894
Pullman strike
1894
Utah admitted to Union
1896
McKinley defeats Bryan for presidency
1896
Dingley Tariff Act
1897
Gold Standard Act
1900
Gold Standard Act
1900
Oklahoma admitted to Union
1907
Indians granted US citizenship
1924
Indian Reorganization Act
1934
New England missionaries arrive in Hawaii
1820
Samoa crisis with Germany
1889
Pan-American Conference
1889
Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History
1890
New Orleans crisis with Italy
1891
Valparaiso crisis with Chile
1892
Prilbilof Islands dispute with Canada
1893
White planter revolt in Hawaii
1893
Cleveland refuses Hawaii annexation
1893
Cubans revolt against Spain
1895
Venezuelan boundary crisis with Britain
1895-1896
Maine explosion in Havana harbor
1898
Spanish-American War
1898
Teller Amendment
1898
Dewey’s victory at Manila Bay
1898
Hawaii annexed
1898
Senate ratified treaty acquiring Philippines
1899
Aguinaldo launches rebellion against United States in Philippines
1899
First American Open Door note
1899
Hawaii receives full territorial status
1900
Foraker Act for Puerto Rico
1900
Boxer Rebellion and US military expedition to China
1900
Second Open Door note
1900
McKinley defeats Bryan for presidency
1900
Supreme Court Insular Cases
1901
Platt Amendment
1901
McKinley assassinated; Roosevelt becomes president
1901