1919thth Century Timeline Century Timeline

By: Lena Manley

Chief Joseph: (1898)

Homestead Act: (1862)

Great Plains (1870)

The vast grassland that extends through the Central Portion North America, from Texas northward to Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains.

Leader of the Nez Perce, in the retreat from the United States troops. He was the chief of the Nez Perce Indians. (1840-1904)

160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household.

Nez Perce

1871-1904

Sand Creek

Massacre

1864

Exoduster

1879

Cheyenne assumed they were under government protection & moved to Colorado's Sand Creek Reserve. General S.R. Curtis U.S commander wanted Indians to suffer more, killed over 150 people.

African Americans who moved from the post- Reconstruction South to Kansas.

Native American people living in the pacific Northwest region of the United States.

Buffalo Soldiers

1866

Transcontinental

Railroad

1869

Sitting Bull

1868

A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the U.S. completed in 1869.

Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux never signed the Treaty of fort Laramie.

(Tatanka Iyotanka)

Members of the U.S 10th Calvary. Black regiment. Established by congress.

Battle of Little Big

Horn

1876

Dawes Act

1887Wounded

Knee

1890

The 7th Calvary (Custer’s old regiment) rounded up Natives & took them to a camp in Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The next day when soldiers were taking their weapons, a shot was fired. Calvary killed 300 natives.

Also known as Custer’s last stand by the Native American’s. Most prominent action of Great Sioux war.

Aiming to “Americanize” the native American’s. Broke up reservations and gave some of the reservations land to individual Native-American’s.

Oliver Kelly

1867

Southern Alliance

1875

William McKinley

1896

Didn’t assume major proportions till 1866. Fed up with the share cropping.

Nominated by the Republican party to be President. Got 7million votes. Populism collapsed.

Started the patrons of Husbandry organization for farmers that became popularly known as the Grange.

Bessemer Process

1850

Thomas Alva

Edison

1879

Alexander Graham

Bell

1876

Became a pioneer on the new industrial frontier. He established the world’s 1st research. Laboratory in Menio park, New Jersey.

Helped create the telephone. Opened way for a worldwide communications network.

Developed independently by the British Manufacturer Henry Bessemer & William Kelly. Injecting air into molten iron to remove impurities.

One of the 1st industrial Moguis to make his own fortune. Gave money to build public libraries, hoping to help others write their own rags-to riches stories.

Republican political activists who bolted from the U.S Presidential election.

Affected office work and created new jobs for women. A way for worldwide communications network.

Andrew Carnegie

1870’s

Telephone

1876

Mugwumps

1884

Social Darwinism

1859

Sherman Antitrust

Act

1890

John D. Rockefell-

ow

1870From Charles Darwin’s Theory of biological evolution. Explained natural selection and people pass down their traits.

Established standard oil company. Used a trust to gain total control of the oil industry in America. His oil company processed 2/3 of the country’s crude oil.

Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries.

Samuel Gompers

1886

Collective Bargaining

1891

Eugene V.

Debs

1885

Negotiation between an employer and trade union.

Attempted to form such an industrial union- the American railway union.

Led the cigar makers’ International Union to join with other craft unions.

Socialism

1827

Scabs

1892

Sweat Shops

1830-1850

Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods.

Strike breaks kept the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company going during the strike.

Any working environment considered to be unacceptably difficult or dangerous.

Ellis Island

1892

Dumbbell Tenement

1879

Melting Pot

1780’s About 20% of immigrants here were detained for a day or more before being inspected. 1) Pass physical exam.2)If passed then they went to a government inspector. This was a immigration station.

Law required every in habit able room or window opening, a requirement met by including air shafts between adjacent buildings.

A mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together by abandoning their Native languages and customs.

Angel Island

1863

Jacob Riis

1849-1914

Settlement House

1880’s

Asians and Chinese arrived here. Processing was similar to procedures at Ellis Island. Endured harsh questioning. Long attention in filthy ramsh ackle buildings waiting.

Danish American Social reformer, known for using his photographic and journalists talents to help the imparerished in New York City.

Community centers in slum neighborhoods that provide assistance to people in the area especially immigrants.

Jane Adams

1860-1935Urbanizat-

ion

1860’s

Glided Age

1860’s

One of the most influential of the settlement house movements. First women to win Nobel peace prize.

Growth of cities, mostly in regions of the Northeast and Midwest.

Period following civil war, late 1860’s to 1896 time of enormous growth that attracted millions from Europe . Growth interrupted by major nationwide depression.

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