1860-1890
Timeline
1860s : Civil War
1864 - Wade–Davis Bill
1864 - Sand Creek
Massacre
1864 - Nevada becomes a
state
1864 - Sherman's
March to the Sea
1865 - Robert E. Lee made commander-in-chief
of all Confederate forces
1865 - Richmond, Virginia, captured by a
corps of black Union troops
1865 - Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House
1865 - Abraham
Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes President
1865 - American Civil War ends
as the last elements of the Confederacy surrender
1860s :
Reconstruction
1865 - 13th Amendment passes,
permanently outlawing slavery
1865 - Freedman's Bureau
1866 - Civil Rights Act of 1866
1866 - Ku Klux Klan founded
1867 - Tenure of Office Act enacted
1868 - Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, acquitted
by the Senate
1868 – 14th
is ratified; second of Reconstruction Amendments
1868 - Ulysses S. Grant is
elected president
1869 - Transcontinental Railroad is
completed Promontory Summit, Utah Territory
1870s
1870 - 15th Amendment
1870 - Force Acts
1871 - Great Chicago Fire
1871 - Treaty of Washington with the British Empire
regarding the Dominion of Canada
1872 - Yellowstone National Park created
1872 - Crédit Mobilier scandal
1872 - Amnesty Act
1872 - Alabama Claims
1873 - Panic of 1873
1873 - Virginius Affair
1874 - Red River Indian War
1875 - Aristides
(horse) wins first Kentucky Derby
1875 - Resumption Act
1875 - Civil Rights Act of 1875
1875 - The Art Students League of New York is
founded
1876 - National League of baseball founded
1876 - Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
1876 - Munn v. Illinois establishes
public regulation of utilities
1876 - Colorado becomes a state
1876 - Battle of Little Bighorn
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the
telephone
1876 - U.S. presidential election, 20 Electoral College votes
disputed
1877 - The Electoral Commission awards Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency
1877 - Reconstruction ends
1877 - Nez Perce War
1878 - Bland-Allison
Act
1878 - Morgan silver dollars first minted
1879 - Thomas Edison creates
first functioning light bulb
1879 - Knights of Labor go
public
1880s
1880 - University of Southern California founded
1880 - U.S. population exceeds 50 million
1881 - James Garfield
inaugurated as President
1881 - James Garfield
assassinated
1881 - Chester A.
Arthur inaugurated as President
1881 - Clara Barton creates Red Cross
1881 - Tuskegee Institute founded
1881 - Billy the Kid is
shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett
1881 - A Century of Dishonor written by Helen Hunt Jackson
1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act
1883 - Civil Rights Cases 109 US 3 1883
legalizes doctrine of segregation
1883 - Brooklyn Bridge opens
1885 - Grover Cleveland inaugurated
as President
1885 - Washington monument completed
1886 - Haymarket Riot
1886 - American Federation of Labor founded
in Columbus, Ohio
1887 - Dawes Act
1887 - Hatch Act
1888 - Publication of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
1889 - Oklahoma Land Rush (April 22, 1889)
1889 - Benjamin
Harrison becomes President
1889 - North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington become states
1889 - Johnstown flood in
Pennsylvania
1889 - Jane Addams founds Hull House
1890s
1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act
1890 - Jacob Riis published "How the Other Half Lives"
1890 - Sherman Silver Purchase Act
1890 - McKinley tariff
1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre
1890 - National
American Woman Suffrage Association founded
1891 - Baltimore Crisis
1892 - Homestead Strike
1892 - General Electric Company
founded
1893 - Grover Cleveland inaugurated
President for second term
1893 - Panic of 1893
1893 - Sherman Silver Purchase Act repealed
1894 - Coxey's Army
1894 - Pullman strike
1894 - Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act,
including Income Tax
1895 - Stagger Lee shoots Billy,
spawning countless ballads.
1895 - Pollock
v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company strikes down part of
Wilson-Gorman Tariff
1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson 163 US 537 1896 affirms the idea of
"separate but equal"
1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech
1896 - Utah becomes a state
1897 - William McKinley becomes
President
1897 - Boston subway completed
1897 - Dingley tariff
1898 - USS Maine explodes
in Havana, Cuba precipitating
the Spanish-American War
1898 - De Lôme Letter
1898 - Treaty of Paris (1898)
ends Spanish-American War
1898 - Philippine-American War
begins
1898 - Hawaii annexed
1898 - Newlands Resolution
1898 - American
Anti-Imperialist League organized
1899 - Teller Amendment
1899 - American Samoa occupied
1899 - Open Door Notes
