Mr. Beacom, Lincoln Southeast H.S.
APUSH Period 6 (1865-1898) Timeline
1865—The Civil War ends
1866—Tennessee is the first Confederate state to be re-admitted
1867—Nebraska becomes the 37th state
1867—Alaska is purchased from Russia
1868—War hero Ulysses S. Grant is elected president
1869—The Transcontinental Railroad is completed at Promontory Point, Utah
1869—The Territory of Wyoming allows women to vote
1870—John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1871—The Great Chicago Fire kills 300+ and leaves roughly 100,000 homeless
1872—Yellowstone becomes the first national park
1873—Mark Twain coins the phrase “Gilded Age”
1873—A financial crisis known as the Panic of 1873 sets in, it lasts until 1879
1874—The Greenback Party is founded
1875—The first Kentucky Derby is held
1876—Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1876—The Centennial International Exposition is held in Philadelphia, it hosted 9+ million visitors
1876—Custer is routed at the Battle of Little Bighorn
1877—Sioux warrior Crazy Horse is murdered at Fort Robinson, Nebraska
1877—Reconstruction ends due to the Compromise of 1877
1877—The Great Railroad Strike lasted 45 days
1878—Thomas Edison patents the phonograph
1879—Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting for the first time
1880—The first cash register is patented
1881—President James Garfield is shot twice and dies two months later
1882—Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act
1883—The Pendleton Civil Service Act is enacted
1884—Grover Cleveland is elected president; it was the first Democratic win since 1856
1885—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is first published in the U.S.
1886—Apache warrior Geronimo finally surrenders to the U.S. Army
1886—The Haymarket Riot occurs in Chicago; a bomb kills seven police officers
1887—Congress passes the Dawes Act, dividing tribal lands into allotments
1888—Benjamin Harrison edges the incumbent Cleveland to become president
1889—Oklahoma holds its first land rush
1890—The U.S. Census announces that the western frontier is closed
1890—Thanks to the work of John Muir, Yosemite National Park is established
1890—The Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota marks an end to the Indian Wars
1891—The Populist Party is created
1892—The Ellis Island immigration inspection station opens in New York
1892—Cleveland defeats Harrison in a re-match of the election of 1888
1893—Frederick Jackson Turner presents his “Frontier Thesis”
1893—A serious economic depression sets in, it is labeled the Panic of 1893
1894—The Pullman Strike stalls rail traffic nationally
1894—“Coxey’s Army” marches on Washington, D.C.
1895—Booker T. Washington delivers his “Atlanta Compromise” speech
1896—In Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court supports “separate, but equal”
1896—William J. Bryan delivers his “Cross of Gold” speech at the Democratic Nat’l Convention in Chicago
1897—The Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska takes off
Mr. Beacom, Lincoln Southeast H.S.
1898—The U.S. enters the Spanish-American War