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Timeline of United States history (1860-1899)
This section of the
Timeline of United States history
concerns
events from
1860
to
1899
.
Table of contents
1 1860s
2 1870s
3 1880s
4 1890s
1860s
1860
-
Pony Express
begins
1860
- Crittenden Compromise
1860
- South Carolina secedes
1861
-
Abraham Lincoln
becomes President
1861
- Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) established under President Jefferson Davis
1861
-
United States Civil War
begins at Fort Sumter
1861
-
Morrill tariff
1861
-
Kansas
admitted to the Union as a free state
1861
-
Ex Parte Merryman
, federal court case which objected to Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus
1861
- First Battle of Bull Run
1862
-
Homestead Act
1862
-
Pacific Railway Act
1862
-
Morrill Land Grant Colleges Act
1863
-
National Banking Act
1863
- Battle at Antietam
1863
- Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
1863
- Battle of Gettysburg
1863
-
West Virginia
becomes a state
1863
- Draft riot in New York
1864
- Banking Act of 1864
1864
-
Wade Davis Bill
1864
-
Sand Creek Massacre
1864
-
Maximilian Affair
1864
-
Nevada
becomes a state
1865
-
Abraham Lincoln
assassinated
1865
-
Andrew Johnson
becomes President
1865
-
United States Civil War
ends
1865
-
13th Amendment
1865
-
Freedman's Bureau
1866
-
Civil Rights Act
1866
-
Ku Klux Klan
founded
1866
-
Ex Parte Milligan
71 US 2 1866 rules that civilians cannot be tried in military tribunals when civilian courts are available
1867
-
Tenure of Office Act
1867
- The Grange founded
1867
-
Reconstruction
Acts
1867
- US purchases
Alaska
1867
-
Nebraska
becomes a state
1868
-
Burlingame Treaty
1868
-
14th Amendment
1868
- Tenure of Office Act
1868
-
University of California
chartered
1868
- Carnegie Steel Company founded
1868
-
Typewriter
invented
1869
-
Ulysses S. Grant
becomes President
1869
-
Wyoming
grants
women's suffrage
1869
-
Golden spike[?]
nailed in, completing the transcontinental railroad
1869
-
James Fisk
and
Jay Gould
's "
Black Friday
"
1869
- Knights of Labor formed
1870s
1870
-
15th Amendment
1870
- First graduate programs (
Yale
,
Harvard
)
1870
- Force Acts
1870
- Standard Oil Company is formed
1871
-
Great Chicago Fire
1872
-
Yellowstone National Park
created
1872
- Credit Mobilier Scandal
1872
-
Amnesty Act
1872
-
Alabama Claims
1873
- Panic of 1873
1874
- Red River Wars
1875
-
Aristides[?]
wins first
Kentucky Derby
1875
-
Resumption Act
1875
- Civil Rights Act
1876
-
National League
Baseball
founded
1876
-
Centennial Exposition
in
Philadelphia
1876
-
Munn v. Illinois
establishes public regulation of utilities
1876
-
Colorado
becomes a state
1876
- Battle of Little Bighorn
1876
- Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1877
-
Rutherford B. Hayes
becomes President and
Reconstruction
ends with the Compromise of 1877
1878
-
Bland-Allison Act
1878
- Morgan
silver dollars[?]
first minted
1879
-
Edison
invents
light bulb
1879
- Knights of Labor go public
1880s
1880s
- Dust Bowl begins
1880
- US population exceeds 50 million
1881
-
James Garfield
inaugurated as President
1881
-
James Garfield
assassinated
1881
-
Chester A. Arthur
inaugurated as President
1881
-
Clara Barton
creates
Red Cross
1881
-
Tuskegee Institute
founded
1881
-
A Century of Dishonor
written by Helen Hunt Jackson
1882
-
John D. Rockefeller
founds
Standard Oil
1882
-
Chinese Exclusion Act
and European Restriction Act
1883
-
Civil Rights Cases
109 US 3 1883 legalizes doctrine of segregation
1883
-
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
1883
-
Brooklyn Bridge
opens
1885
-
Grover Cleveland
inaugurated as President
1885
-
Washington monument[?]
completed
1885
-
Stanford University
founded
1886
-
Haymarket Riot
1886
-
American Federation of Labor[?]
founded in
Columbus, Ohio
1887
-
Congress
creates
Interstate Commerce Commission
1887
-
Dawes Act
1887
-
Hatch Act
1888
- [[
Looking Backward
|Looking Backward]] written by Edward Bellamy
1888
-
National Geographic Society
founded
1889
-
Benjamin Harrison
becomes President
1889
-
North Dakota
,
South Dakota
,
Montana
and
Washington
become states
1889
-
Johnstown flood[?]
1889
-
Jane Addams
founds
Hull House
1890s
1890
-
Sherman Antitrust Act
1890
-
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
1890
-
McKinley tariff
1890
-
Yosemite National Park
created
1890
-
Idaho
and
Wyoming
become states
1890
-
Wounded Knee Massacre
1890
- North American Women's Suffrage Association founded
1891
-
Basketball
invented
1891
-
Baltimore Crisis
1892
-
Homestead Strike
1892
- General Electric Company founded
1893
-
Grover Cleveland
inaugurated President for second term
1893
-
Panic of 1893
1893
- Sherman Silver Purchase Act repealed
1894
-
Coxey's Army
1894
-
Pullman strike[?]
1894
-
Wilson-Gorman tariff
, including
Income Tax
1895
-
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company[?]
strikes down part of Wilson-Gorman Tariff
1896
-
Plessy v. Ferguson
163 US 537 1896 legalizes segregation in railway cars
1896
-
William Jennings Bryant[?]
Cross of Gold[?]
speech
1896
-
Gold
discovered in
Klondike
1896
-
Utah
becomes a state
1897
-
William McKinley
becomes President
1897
-
Boston subway[?]
completed
1897
-
Dingley tariff
1898
- US battleship Maine explodes in Havana, precipitating the
Spanish-American War
1898
-
DeLome Letter
1898
-
Treaty of Paris (1898)
ends Spanish-American War
1899
- Teller Amendment
1899
- Open Door Notes
1820-1859
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