Period VI Timeline Flashcards
1867
Purchase of Alaska
1869
Founding of the Knights of Labour
Transcontinental Railway completed
1873
Panic of 1873
1876
Alexander Graham Bell develops the telephone
1877
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Munn v. Illinois
1879
Thomas A. Edison develops the lightbulb
1882
Formation of the Standard Oil Trust
Chinese Exclusion Act
1886
Founding of the American Federation of Labour
Haymarket Square Riot
Haymarket bombing
Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois
1887
Interstate Commerce Act
Opening of the first subway system in the US (Boston).
Dawes Severalty Act
1890
Sherman Antitrust Act
Beginning of Ghost Dance movement
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Bison nearly extinct
How the Other Half lives, published
McKinley Tariff
1892
Homestead lockout (steel strike)
General Electric founded
Populist Party convention
Cleveland vs. the Populists
1893
World’s Columbia Exposition
Panic of 1893
Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”
1894
Pullman strike
Coxey’s Army
1895
United States v. E. C. Knight Company
1896
Plessy v. Ferguson
William McKinley elected president