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