Chase Shutt, Colby Shutt, Peyman Ali,
Claudia Sauz, Lamoure Rolle, Dallin Crossley
James Huntington, Carley Longhurst
The Reunification Era
1860-1920
1845
Abolition in the West Indies ►
1849
California Gold Rush ►
1850
Federal Land Grants ►
Investment Bankers ►
1850-60
1850-70
Slavery Truce ►
Benefiting Rail Road Builders ►
1853
The Railway Begins ►
1856
Martin and Willie Handcart Companies ►
1857
Average White Income ►
Agriculture ►
1859
Blacks Income ►
J. Pierpont Morgan ►
1860-70
1860
Suspicious Activities in Railroad Construction ►
Railroad Bonds ►
Abraham Lincoln Elected ►
Population (in thousands) ►
Per Capita Deposits & Currency in Circulation ►
Real Wages ►
Cost of War VS Cost of Slaves ►
Commodity Output ►
Railroad Track Progress ►
1861
Central Pacific Railroad ►
After Lincoln’s Election ►
Financial Panic ►
Value of Confederate and Union Money ►
The Union Takes Control ►
1862
The Union Takes Control ►
Greenback ►
Railroad Construction Begins in the East ►
Pacific Railway Act ►
1863-64
1863
Federal Naval Blockade ►
The Union Takes Control ►
The National Bank Act ►
Draft Discontent and Mobs ►
1864
The Union Takes Control ►
The Promotion of National Banks ►
Value of Confederate Money in Trade ►
Great Plains Track ►
1865
The Contraction Act of 1865 ►
Prices VS Wages ►
1866
1867
1869
Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois ►
National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry ►
Public Credit Act ►
The Transcontinental Railroad is Completed ►
1870-80
1870-90
1870
Railroad Monopolies ►
Black Migration ►
Immigration ►
Death Rates ►
Southern Revitalization in Transportation ►
Productivity of the Railroad ►
1871-74
1871
1873
State Laws ►
Land Grants ►
Excess Capacity ►
Credit Mobilier or America ►
The Crime of ’73 ►
The Timber-Culture Act of 1873 ►
Construction Booms ►
1876
1877
European Stocks in Railroads ►
Munn V. Illinois ►
The Desert Land Act of 1877 ►
New York to Chicago ►
1878
The Timber Stone Act of 1878 ►
The Timber-Cutting Act of 1878 ►
Bland-Allison Act ►
1879
1880-1920
1880
Eastern Trunk Line Association ►
Immigration ►
Value of Track ►
Southern Transmountain Railroad ►
1884
1886
1887
1890
Coxey’s Army ►
Throwing Bombs ►
Act to Regulate Commerce ►
Public Health ►
Sherman Silver Purchase Law ►
Social Savings ►
Moving Forward ►
1891
Useable Timber ►
General Revision Act of 1891 ►
1894
1900
Labor Day ►
Gold Standard Act ►
Creation of US Steel ►
1901
Bureau of Forestry ►
1902
No More Unions ►
Reclamation Act of 1902 ►
1903
Child Labor Laws ►
Act of Elkins ►
1906
1907
1908
1910
Hepburn Act ►
The Panic of 1907 ►
The Aldrich – Vreeland Act ►
Child Labor ►
Farmers to Manufacturers ►
1912
Anti-Union Contracts ►
The Pujo Committee ►
The National Monetary Commission ►
The Federal Reserve Act ►
1913
1917
1920
Department of Labor ►
Railroads are Nationalized ►
Women in the Work Force ►
Hours in a Week ►
American Factory Workers ►