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Chronology 1850-1902
Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |