APUSH - Time Period 6 Timeline

1869 - Workers complete the first transcontinental railroad. 
1870 - John D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil.
1876 - Thomas Edison opens his Menlo Park Laboratory
1876 - Custer is defeated at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
1882 - Congress bans immigration from China.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty opens.
1890 - The Census Bureau concludes that the frontier is closed.
1893 - A strike by workers on Pullman railroad cars shuts down the railroads.
1896 - The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson approves segregation.
1896 - William McKinley wins the presidency.