America massive events set

First use of “Manifest Destiny”, satirical

Formation of the KKK at Pulaski, TN

Establishment of Freedmen’s Bureau

13th Amendment (abolition of slavery)

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

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

Southern Homestead Act

Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson

Completion of Union Pacific Railroad at promontery summit

Custer killed by Native American coalition at Little Bighorn

Corrupt Bargain between Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden

Dawes Act breaks down reservations

Ida Tarbell publishes Ten Days In A Madhouse

200 Sioux killed at Wounded Knee

Official end of the Frontier

Sherman anti-trust act

Sherman silver purchase act

Upton Sinclair exposed the meat packing industry in The Jungle

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

First World War

Zimmerman Telegram

Clayton anti-trust and and establishment of federal trade commission

Annexation of Hawai’i

US imports Hawai’ian sugar duty free

Establishment of Pearl Harbour

McKinley Tariff

Purchase of Alaska

14th Amendment (equal protection under laws)

15th Amendment (voting)

Enforcement acts

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

Chinese Exclusion Act

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

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

Teller Amendment (declaration of war on Spain)

16th Amendment (tax)

17th Amendment (direct election of senators)

18th Amendment (prohibition)

Tweed ring exposed in New York Times

Omaha platform

First Red Scare/Palmer Raids

Knights of Labour active

Klondike Gold Rush

Fenian raids

Oklahoma Land rush

19th Amendment (suffrage)

Economic panic

Use of Fort Laramie against Native Americans

Ford Motor company established

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

NAACP founded

Bull Moose Party founded

Platt Amendment (control of Cuban foreign policy)

Roosevelt Corollary

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

Circumnavigation of the great white fleet

149 people die in the triangle shirtwaist factory fire in NYC