America massive events set

1865-1920 I'll put them in order eventually

1845

First use of “Manifest Destiny”, satirical

1865

Formation of the KKK at Pulaski, TN

1865

Establishment of Freedmen’s Bureau

1865

13th Amendment (abolition of slavery)

1866

Midterms result in over 2/3 Republican majority in Congress, seriously conflicting with Johnson

1866

Congress passes the Civil rights bill, overturning Johnson’s veto

1866

Southern Homestead Act

1868

Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson

1869

Completion of Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory Summit

1876

Custer killed by Native American coalition at Little Bighorn

1877

Corrupt Bargain between Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden

1887

Dawes Act breaks down reservations

1887

Ida Tarbell publishes Ten Days In A Madhouse

1890

200 Sioux killed at Wounded Knee

1890

Official end of the Frontier

1890

Sherman anti-trust act

1890

Sherman silver purchase act

1905

Upton Sinclair exposed the meat packing industry in The Jungle

1906

Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food And Drug Act in response to The Jungle

1914-1918

First World War

1917

Zimmerman Telegram

1914

Clayton anti-trust and and establishment of federal trade commission

1898

Annexation of Hawai’i

1875

US imports Hawai’ian sugar duty free

1887

Establishment of Pearl Harbour

1890

McKinley Tariff

1867

Purchase of Alaska

1868

14th Amendment (equal protection under laws)

1870

15th Amendment (voting)

1870-1871

Enforcement acts

1881

Assassination of Garfield, leaving Chester Arthur, an ex machine politician, as president

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act

1883

Arthur passes the Pendleton Civil Service reform act, giving a set amount of jobs over to competitive exam, banning firing/demoting for political reasons

1885

Election of Grover Cleveland, first Democratic president elected since the civil war

1898

Teller Amendment (declaration of war on Spain)

1909

16th Amendment (tax)

1913

17th Amendment (direct election of senators)

1919

18th Amendment (prohibition)

1871

Tweed ring exposed in New York Times

1892

Omaha platform

1917-1920

First Red Scare/Palmer Raids

1869-1886

Knights of Labour active

1896-1899

Klondike Gold Rush

1870-71

Fenian raids

1889

Oklahoma Land rush

1920

19th Amendment (suffrage)

1873

Economic panic

1849-1890

Use of Fort Laramie against Native Americans

1903

Ford Motor company established

1898

Teller Amendment (war with Spain, non conquest of Cuba)

1909

NAACP founded

1912

Bull Moose Party founded

1901

Platt Amendment (control of Cuban foreign policy)

1904

Roosevelt Corollary

1904-1905

Russo-Japanese war results in Roosevelt winning the nobel peace prize in 1906

1907-1909

Circumnavigation of the great white fleet

1911

149 people die in the triangle shirtwaist factory fire in NYC