GOVERNMENT ECONOMY SOCIAL FOREIGN OTHER
RELATIONS
RECONSTRUCTION
1800: 30-60mill buffalo
1823: Monroe Doctrine
1830: 605 mill immigrated north
1831: Mechanical reaper
1837: Steel Plow
1840: population 17mill
1848: discovered gold California
1848: treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1850: Chicago pop 30,000
1852: reduced NA payments from 50yrs to 10yrs
1854: Kansas – Nebraska Act
1856: the Guano islands act
1860: population 31mill
1860: transatlantic railway
1860: 250,000 freed AA in south + 4 mill slaves
1860: 2,000 pop in Chicago China town
1861: Bleeding Kansas
1862: Lincon Speech
1862: homestead act
1862: Dokota war
1862: CCS Alabama
1867: The great Sioux war
1863: Lincon speech on emancipation proclamation
1863: national bank act
1863: Daniel Freeman used homestead act
1863: Seward rejected intervention in Polish uprising repression
1864: 10 per cent plan
1864: Sand creek massacre
1864: new Mexican leader Maximillian
1865: freedmen's bureau
1865: Wade – Davis Bill
1865: NY stock exchange $6 bill
1865: Johnson ordered that all land confiscated returned to Southerners that had
been pardoned
Lincoln assassinated
14th amendment
1866: civil rights bill
1866: KKK created
1866: wheat $1.45
1866: start of Fenian raids
1866: Fenian attempt to seize Campobello islands
1867: military reconstruction bill
,1867: treaty of cession (Russia)
1867: Canada became self governing
the tenure of office act
1868:53,000km track laid
1868: attempt to impeach Johnson
1868: Burlingame treaty
1869: 15th amendment
1869 24th sep: Black Friday
1869: first transcontinental railroad
1869: Americus publication
1869: wheat 76c
1869: KKK peak (till 1871)
1870: southern income fallen 2/5 of northern
1870: 15,000 railroad passengers
1870: US produced world: 50% corn, 33% cotton, 70% oil
1870: 12,000 pop Chicago Chinatown
1872: 7,500 miles of railroad created
1872: Louisiana governor's race (Colfax)
1873: economic depression
1873: Colfax massacre
1873: Timber and Culture act
1874: 1,600 miles of railroad created
1875: whiskey scandal
1875: Sioux ultimatum
1875: second gold rush
1876: Battle of Little Big Horn
1876: NA winter campaign
1877: the compromise
1877: Sioux res under military control
1877: Desert and Land act
1880: population 50 mill
1880: 1,000 buffalo left
nd
1890: 2 largest money market in world
1890: Chicago pop 1 mill+
1892: 1 mill railroad passengers
1890: McKinley tariff
GUILDED AGE
1840: 15 bushels made in 35 hrs
1848: Taiping rebellion
1853: Carnage bought stocks in Pennsylvania railroad
1860: Rockefeller visited Verago oil fields
1860: NY population 1mill
1862: Vanderbilt worth $11 mill
1862: R bought first il refinery
1865: Jesse Chisholm established Chisholm trail
1866: national labour union formed
, 1886: harsh winter (until 1887)
1867: 221 million bushels made
1867: 6 mill exports
1867: 78 cents wheat bushel
1867: Joseph McCoy 'the long drive'
1868: Phillip D Armour made packing business Chicago
1869: The Knights of Labour created
1869: 1,911 miles of track built (since 1863)
1869: 'where to emigrate and why?'
1870: R set up standard oil company
1870: census 63,000 Chinese men in pop
1871: J.P Morgan began company
1873: 31 cents a wheat bushel
1874: NY + Kansas had CR in their book
1875: treaty of friendship
1877: Hayes in power
1877: great railroad strike
1877: The national railroad strike (check if same)
1877: total union membership fell from 300,000 to 50,000
1877: Joseph Seligman
1878: 'In Minnesota, the empire state of the north-west'
1879: the Ney York Herald Tribune
1880: congressional investigation into post office department
1880: controlled 85% American oil production
1880s: 106,000 Chinese men in pop
1880s: first black ghetto
1881: Garfield in power
ND
1881 2 july: G assassinated
1881: Aurther in power
1881: Assassination of Alexander II
1882: Chinese exclusion act
1882: immigration act
1882: local assembly to oppose social contract
1882: Sentator Henry W. Blair of New Hampshire
1882: sec of Navy Hunter review
1883: tarrif act – reduced by 1.47%
1883: Pendelton act
1883: Northern Pacific line
1883: southern pacific line
1883: Carnegie bought homestead steel works (425 miles railway)
1883: court denied CR case
1884: Topeka and Santana FE
1884: Ohio passes CR law
1885: Cleveland in power
1885: American Federation of Labour set up
1885: 5.71 mill cattle transported (since 1866)
1885: ban on foreign social contract
RELATIONS
RECONSTRUCTION
1800: 30-60mill buffalo
1823: Monroe Doctrine
1830: 605 mill immigrated north
1831: Mechanical reaper
1837: Steel Plow
1840: population 17mill
1848: discovered gold California
1848: treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1850: Chicago pop 30,000
1852: reduced NA payments from 50yrs to 10yrs
1854: Kansas – Nebraska Act
1856: the Guano islands act
1860: population 31mill
1860: transatlantic railway
1860: 250,000 freed AA in south + 4 mill slaves
1860: 2,000 pop in Chicago China town
1861: Bleeding Kansas
1862: Lincon Speech
1862: homestead act
1862: Dokota war
1862: CCS Alabama
1867: The great Sioux war
1863: Lincon speech on emancipation proclamation
1863: national bank act
1863: Daniel Freeman used homestead act
1863: Seward rejected intervention in Polish uprising repression
1864: 10 per cent plan
1864: Sand creek massacre
1864: new Mexican leader Maximillian
1865: freedmen's bureau
1865: Wade – Davis Bill
1865: NY stock exchange $6 bill
1865: Johnson ordered that all land confiscated returned to Southerners that had
been pardoned
Lincoln assassinated
14th amendment
1866: civil rights bill
1866: KKK created
1866: wheat $1.45
1866: start of Fenian raids
1866: Fenian attempt to seize Campobello islands
1867: military reconstruction bill
,1867: treaty of cession (Russia)
1867: Canada became self governing
the tenure of office act
1868:53,000km track laid
1868: attempt to impeach Johnson
1868: Burlingame treaty
1869: 15th amendment
1869 24th sep: Black Friday
1869: first transcontinental railroad
1869: Americus publication
1869: wheat 76c
1869: KKK peak (till 1871)
1870: southern income fallen 2/5 of northern
1870: 15,000 railroad passengers
1870: US produced world: 50% corn, 33% cotton, 70% oil
1870: 12,000 pop Chicago Chinatown
1872: 7,500 miles of railroad created
1872: Louisiana governor's race (Colfax)
1873: economic depression
1873: Colfax massacre
1873: Timber and Culture act
1874: 1,600 miles of railroad created
1875: whiskey scandal
1875: Sioux ultimatum
1875: second gold rush
1876: Battle of Little Big Horn
1876: NA winter campaign
1877: the compromise
1877: Sioux res under military control
1877: Desert and Land act
1880: population 50 mill
1880: 1,000 buffalo left
nd
1890: 2 largest money market in world
1890: Chicago pop 1 mill+
1892: 1 mill railroad passengers
1890: McKinley tariff
GUILDED AGE
1840: 15 bushels made in 35 hrs
1848: Taiping rebellion
1853: Carnage bought stocks in Pennsylvania railroad
1860: Rockefeller visited Verago oil fields
1860: NY population 1mill
1862: Vanderbilt worth $11 mill
1862: R bought first il refinery
1865: Jesse Chisholm established Chisholm trail
1866: national labour union formed
, 1886: harsh winter (until 1887)
1867: 221 million bushels made
1867: 6 mill exports
1867: 78 cents wheat bushel
1867: Joseph McCoy 'the long drive'
1868: Phillip D Armour made packing business Chicago
1869: The Knights of Labour created
1869: 1,911 miles of track built (since 1863)
1869: 'where to emigrate and why?'
1870: R set up standard oil company
1870: census 63,000 Chinese men in pop
1871: J.P Morgan began company
1873: 31 cents a wheat bushel
1874: NY + Kansas had CR in their book
1875: treaty of friendship
1877: Hayes in power
1877: great railroad strike
1877: The national railroad strike (check if same)
1877: total union membership fell from 300,000 to 50,000
1877: Joseph Seligman
1878: 'In Minnesota, the empire state of the north-west'
1879: the Ney York Herald Tribune
1880: congressional investigation into post office department
1880: controlled 85% American oil production
1880s: 106,000 Chinese men in pop
1880s: first black ghetto
1881: Garfield in power
ND
1881 2 july: G assassinated
1881: Aurther in power
1881: Assassination of Alexander II
1882: Chinese exclusion act
1882: immigration act
1882: local assembly to oppose social contract
1882: Sentator Henry W. Blair of New Hampshire
1882: sec of Navy Hunter review
1883: tarrif act – reduced by 1.47%
1883: Pendelton act
1883: Northern Pacific line
1883: southern pacific line
1883: Carnegie bought homestead steel works (425 miles railway)
1883: court denied CR case
1884: Topeka and Santana FE
1884: Ohio passes CR law
1885: Cleveland in power
1885: American Federation of Labour set up
1885: 5.71 mill cattle transported (since 1866)
1885: ban on foreign social contract
