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Chronology 1850-1902
Reconstruction
Question | Answer |
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1850's | Development of Bessemer and Kelly steel-making process |
1861 | Protective tarrif |
1862 | Land-Grant College Act, Homestead Act, Pacific Railroad Act |
1865 | Civil War ends |
1866-1880 | Cattle drives north from Texas |
1867-1868 | Treaties establish major western reservations |
1869 | First transcontinental railroad completed |
1870 | Standard oil incorperated |
1870's-1880's | Extension of farming to great plains |
1872 | Montgomery Ward opens first U.S. mail-order business |
1873-1879 | Depression |
1874 | American Indian resistance ends on southern plains |
1875 | Andrew Carnegie open's nations largest steel plant |
1876 | Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone, Indian victory in Battle of Little Big Horn |
1879 | Invention of the incandescent light bulb |
1880's | Railroad expansion and consolidation, Standard Oil Trust organized |
1882-1885 | Recession |
1883 | Northern Pacific Railroad completed to Portland |
1887 | American Sugar Refining Company formed |
1902 | Reclamation Act |