1860-1896        "The Gilded Age"

1867 - The Grange established to try and help farmers

1869-  William "Boss" Tweed named leader of Tammany Hall (Political Machine)

1872  -Susan B. Anthony arrested for casting a ballot in New York

1877        "Jim Crow" Laws established in the South

1879        The "Exodusters" go to Kansas escaping racism at home (Push Factor)

1881        President Garfield assassinated

1882        Chinese Exclusion Act passed

1885        First skyscraper built in Chicago (10 story Home Insurance Building)

1886        Wabash V. Illnois

1889        Neshoba County first opens in Philadelphia, MS

1889        Jane Addams opens Hull House in Chicago (Settlement House)

1890        Sherman Antitrust Act passed

1890        Poll Taxes in Mississippi passed

1892        Ellis Island established in New York for immigrants

1895        Booker T. Washington gives his Atlanta Compromise Speech

1896        Plessy v. Ferguson ("separate but equal")

1896        William Jennings Bryan gives his Cross of Gold Speech

1903        W.E.B De Bois writes The Should of Black Folk criticizing Booker T. Washington

1910        Angel Island opens in California for immigrants