importsnt dates period 6

1865

End of the Civil War and beginning of the Reconstruction era

1866

Formation of the National Labor Union

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed at Promontory Point, Utah; Knights of Labor founded.

1870

Standard Oil incorporated by John D. Rockefeller (Horizontal Integration).

1871

Indian Appropriation Act (ends the practice of treating tribes as independent nations).

1872

Credit Mobilier Scandal

1873

The Panic of ____ begins a six-year economic recession.

1874

Invention of Barbed Wire by Joseph Glidden (ends the "Open Range" era).

1876

Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand).

1876

Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.

1877

Great Railroad Strike

1877

Munn v. Illinois (Supreme Court upholds state regulation of railroads).

1877

Compromise of ____ ends Reconstruction

1879

Thomas Edison perfects the incandescent light bulb.

1881

Booker T. Washington founds Tuskegee Institute; Helen Hunt Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor.

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act

1883

Pendleton Civil Service Act

1886

Haymarket Square Riot ; American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded by Samuel Gompers.

1886

Wabash v. Illinois

1887

Interstate Commerce Act

1887

Dawes Severalty Act

1889

Andrew Carnegie publishes The Gospel of Wealth; Jane Addams founds Hull House

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act; Wounded Knee Massacre; National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) formed

1890

Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives (Exposing urban poverty).

1892

Homestead Strike (Violence at Carnegie’s steel plant); Populist (People’s) Party formed; Ellis Island Opens

1893

Panic of _____ (Worst economic collapse of the 19th century);

1894

Pullman Strike (led by Eugene V. Debs; ends with federal intervention).

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson; McKinley Elected; William Jennings Bryan delivers the "Cross of Gold" speech.