English Midterm By kmrosholm Jan 1, 1865 "The Notorious Frog of Calaveras County" Mark Twain Jan 31, 1865 13th Amendment passes Apr 9, 1865 Civil War ends/ Reconstruction begins Apr 15, 1865 Lincoln Assainated Jul 28, 1868 14th Amendment passed Jan 1, 1873 The Long Depression begins/ Gilded Age Begins Jan 1, 1876 Jim Crow laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 Nov 6, 1876 Hayes elected president/ Reconstruction ends Jun 1, 1878 "Daisy Miller: A Study" Henry Miller Jan 1, 1880 Massive Immigration from Europe 1880-1910 Jan 1, 1884 "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Mark Twain Feb 8, 1887 Dawes Act Jan 1, 1890 Frontier is closed Dec 29, 1890 Wounded Knee massacre Jan 1, 1891 Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass" Jan 1, 1892 "The Yellow Wall Paper" Charlotte Perkins Gilman Jan 14, 1892 "Desiree's Baby" Kate Chopin Jan 1, 1893 "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Jan 1, 1893 Depression/ End of the Gilded Age Jul 12, 1893 "Debate over Americanization" Frederick Jackson Turner' Jan 1, 1895 Emily Dickinson poems Feb 15, 1898 Spanish American War1898-1899 Jan 1, 1900 "Sister Carrie" Theodor Dreiser Jan 1, 1901 "Up from Slavery" Booker T Washington Jun 16, 1903 Ford Motor Co. founded Dec 17, 1903 Wright Brothers first flight Jun 30, 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act Feb 12, 1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded Feb 23, 1914 Panama Canal opens Jan 16, 1919 18th Amendment passed Aug 18, 1920 19th Amendment passed Jan 1, 1927 "Cogewea; The Half-Blood" Mourning Dove or Humishuma Jan 1, 1932 "Black Elk Speaks" John G. Neihardt
