History

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  • Invention of the telegraph

  • Homestead act

    This gave 160 acres of land to sttlers that paid a filling fee to live on the land for 5 years with out payment to help settle the west.

  • End of Civil War

    At the end of the civil war new laws had to be made along the line of what to do with the south. So this started is what started reconstruction.

  • Battle of Little Big Horn

    This treaty said that we will leave the black hills alone if they stop hitting until we found gold in the hills and we went after them and they fought back and we won.

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    This was created because the presedent wonted to connect the easty coast and tyhe west caost so he set up this competion that help finningsh off the connection and this is what starts them to think about creationg the time zones.

  • Boss Tweed Jailed

    He got caught stealing the tax payers money.

  • Telephone is invented

  • End of Reconstruction

    Reconstruction ended when an election happened and the south won over with there presedent that pulled back everything and reconstruction ended and the blacks were vonerbale =yet again to be terarised by the south.

  • Time Zones are Created

    With the new railroad be created they need an efective time sce4dual one that was the same oll over the place so they made four this enabled extera time to get to the tones on time.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    This act prohibitated chinese people from entering the us for five years.

  • Pendleton Act is Passed

    This act astablished the Civil Service Commision to set up conpetitive examination for federal jobs.

  • Dawes act

    The act provided for the division of tribally held lands into individually owned parcels and opening "surplus" lands to settlement by non-Indians and development by railroads.

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    This law protectys trade and commercial against unlawful restraint and monoply didn't clearly define trusts and monoplies.

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    The sioux indians decided to do a ghost dance well this angered the people so we went to put a stop to it but a shot rang out and we fought we en=ded up killing all of them and the outher indians on the reserve ran to canada.

  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island was started out because they needed a way to regulat the income of the immiugrants so theis and many other islands were created. The people in this island had to go through a rigourus test.

  • Model T invented