APUSH Timeline quiz (1860 to 1920)

Three Notable events from 1860

Lincoln Elected (1860)

Homestead Act (1862)

Battle of Shiloh (1862)

Lincoln Assassinated/ End of Civil War (1865)

Beginning of Reconstruction (1865)

Three Notable events from 1870

Ratification of the 15th Amendment (1870)- African Americans=vote

Modoc battle (1873)

Panic of 1873- Railroads=bankrupt

Compromise of 1877- 1876 election=settled

Three Notable events from 1880

Gilded Age

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)- No Chinese enter US

Growth of big business

Treaty of Paris (1889)

Three Notable events from 1890

Jim Crow laws (1890)- Legalized Racism

Grover Clevland elected (1892)

Wounded Knee (1893)- Native Massacre

Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)-Legal separation.

Three Notable events from 1900

Gold Standard Act of 1900-US dollar by gold weight

Spanish American War ended (1900)

Election of Roosevelt (1904)

Panama Canal (1904)- trading route, cost 400 million

Three Notable events from 1910

New Nationalism (1912)- TR=social welfare and women

WW1 starts (1914)

Schenk v US (1919)- congress could silence people in crisis

Red Scare

Treaty of Versailles (1919) - Document Germany signed ending WW1

Three Notable events from 1920

19th Amendment (1920)- Women could vote

Prohibition (1920) -Alcohol ban

Scopes Trial (1925)- Evolution= not in school

Black Tuesday (1929)- Great Depression

1840

William Henry Harrison elected (1840)

Manifest Destiny (1845)- John Louis O'Sullivan

Gold Rush (1848)- Sutter’s Mill

Mexican War (1848)

1850

Compromise of 1850

Fillmore elected (1850)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Gadsden purchase (1853)