1. Timeline
By david mitchell
late 1800’s to early 1900’s

2. Bessemer process-
devoleped by the british
manufacturer henry
bess, this machine
involved
injecting air into molton
iron to remove carbon
and other impuritys
1850 1857 1859 1862
Fredrick law Social Darwinism- The homestead act-law
Olmsted- grew out of the enacted in 1862 that
landscape English naturalist provided 160 acres of
architect planned Charles Darwin's land to any citizen or
urban parks in theory of evolution, he intended citizen
new york, he was said that some
selected to plan species flourished
central park in and pass their traits
new york city down to the next
generation

3. Sand creek Grandfather
massacre-it clause- the clause
brought peace states that even if
treatys with the a man failed a
apache, kiowa, literacy test that or
and cheyenne
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the treatys
couldn’t afford poll
tax he was still
ceded last land allowed to vote if
they wandred as his father or
nomads until a grandfather had
reservation was been able to vote
made for them before january 1st
1867
1864 1865 1867
Oliver kelley-
started a
Andrew carnegie-one of the first
patron of
industrail moguls to make his own
husbandry an
founate, he left his job at the penn
organization for
state railroad, he entered the steel
farmers
business after touring a british
that became
steel mill witnessing the bessemer
populary
process in action
known as the
grange

4. George Grange-its original purpose
Westinghouse- at the was
age of 22 he invented to provide a social outlet
a railroad for farm
braking system families, but soon turned
through compressed into
air, he pursued many fighting the railroads
improvements in
railway signs and
signals
1868 1869 1870
Tweed ring- between
Tammy hall- John D Rockefeller- 1869
william w tweed establishing and 1871 boss tweed
became head of standred oil led the ring
this organization, took a different of corrupt in
new york city appoach to mergers defraunding the
most powerful they joined city of NYC
democratic with competing
political machine companies in trust
in 1868 agreements

5. Eugene V Debs- was a american
union leader one of the founding Jane adams- was a
members of the pioneer settlement
industrail workers of the world worker and founder of
and several times canidate of the hullhouse in chicago
socialist party of she was also a public
america, debs was a member of philosopher, soicalist
the democratic party and to the ,author and leader in
indiana general womens sufferage
assembly in 1884
1874 1875 1876
George A Custer-
reported that the black Jacob riis- he
hills had gold “from the is known for Thomas Alva Edison- became
grassroots using his a pioneer on the new industrial
down” a gold rush was photographic frontier when he established the
on red cloud and and worlds first research laboratory
spotted tail another jounalistic in menlo park, NJ were Edison
sioux chief vainly talents to help perfected the incandescent light
appealed again to the bulb
government officials improvished
in NYC

6. Gilded age- was the period
Mark twain- a novelist and
following the civil war roughly
humorist inspired a host of
from the
other young authors created
end of the reconstruction to the
most classic literature in
turn of the 20th centuary they
america
belived
to be an era of serious social
problems hidden by a thin layer
of gold
1876 1877 1880
Alexander Graham Bell- Wild bill hitchcock-
invented the first telephone served as a scout
in 1876 it opened the way and spy during the
for world civil war and later
wide communication as marshall in kansas
network he was shot
while holding a pair of
aces and a
pair of eight’s

7. Literacy tests- used so blacks couldn’t
vote, the blacks were asked more Ida b wells-she
difficult became a editor
questions than the white voters or of a local
given a test in a whole different newspaper ,
laugage, officials racial justice was
passed and failed whoever they the main theme
wanted of her reportings
1880 1881
Ragtime- a blend of Booker t washinton- belived that racism
african-american spritals would end once
and european musical blacks acquired useful labor skills and
forms provided their economic
ragtime first became value to society, he started tuskegee
popular in saloons and university in alabama
soon evolved in what is it taught blacks useful skills in
today agirculture
called jazz, rock n roll,
and the blues

8. Joseph pulitzer- a
hungarian immagrant who
had brought the news
paper to new york
he pioneered popular Dawes act- this act broke up the
innovations such as a large reservations and gave land to individual
Sunday edition , native americans 160 acres each
comic’s,sports, and
womens news to the
newpaper
1886 1887
1883
Samual gompers- led the cigar
makers international
unions to join with other craft
unions, and was the american
federation of labor with gompers
as president focused
on collective bargaining between
represenitives of labor
and management to reach a
written agreements on wages,
hours, and working conditions

9. George Eastman- he introduced
his kodak camera the purchase Wounded knee- on
price was 25$ and December 28th the 7th
included a roll of film, once the Calvary custers old
flim was used up you could send regiment rounded up about
the camera back to the 350 starving and freezing
factory and for 10$ the pictures sioux and took them
were devoleped and returned with to a camp at wounded
the camera reloaded knee in south dakota
1888 1890
Ghostdance- this a was ritual
dance that native Americans
thought that it
would bring their land back, the
movement spread rapidly
among the
Sioux tribe

10. Vaudeville- african americans
performers filled roles mainly in
minstrel shows that feature
Sherman trust act-
exaggerated imitations of african
made it illegal to
american music and performance
form a trust that
music and dance to reinforce
interfered with free
black stereotypes
trade between
states or other
countrys
1890 1892
Settlement Ellis island- it was the largest
house- immagration
community center in the u.s and largest one
centers in slum on the
nieborhoods east coast
that provided
assistance
to people in the
area especially
immagrants

11. w.e.b dubois- the first African
American to receive a doctorate
from harvard strongly Mail order catalogs- the post
disagreed with Washington office introduced
gradually dubois founded the a free delivery system that
niagara movement which brought packages
insisted that blacks should seek a directly to every home
liberal arts education so that the
communtiy would have
strong inteligent african americans
1895 1896
William randolph hearst-
had purchased the new
york morning jounal, hearst
who had
already owned the san
francisiso examiner sought
to out do pulitzer by putting
exaggerated
tales in the jounal

12. William jennings bryan-democratic
nominee
Plessy vs. ferguson- the editor of the omaha world herald,
supreme court said that the he delivered
separation of races In public an impassionate address to the
was assembled delegates
legal and didn’t violate any
part of the 14th admendment
they established the doctrine
separate but equal
1896
William mckinley- republican
nomination for president after
much debate the democratic
party came out in favor of the
gold and sliver standred

13. Orville and wilbur wright- brothers
the wright brother’s were bicycle
manufactures from
dayton, ohio. They experimented
with new engines powerful
enough to keep heavyer
than air crafts along, on december
17th 1903 at kitty hawk, nc their
biplane covered 120ft
and lasted 12 seconds
1905 1910
Angel island- in the san francisco bay over 50000
Chinese immagrants came through this island to
get to american in the early 20th centurary