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American History 4
1866 - 1892
| Description | Event | Description | Event | Description | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Founded the Klu Klux Klan | Forrest | Where the Klu Klux Klan was founded | Pulaski, TN | Finished re-layed the transatlantic cable | Field |
| Purchased Alaska from Russia | Seward | Price of Alaska | $7 million | nicknames for Alaskan purchase | Seward's Folly; Seward's Icebox |
| Formed the Pullman Palace Car Company | Carnegie & Pullman | Used by cattle herders to run cattle from Texas to Kansas | Chisholm Trail | Established the National Grange to support farmer's rights | Kelley |
| Published Ragged Dick and creates rags-to-riches genre | Alger | Impeached for trying to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in violation of Tenure of Office Act | Johnson | Senate vote when frist-term Iowa Republican Edmund Ross votes "Not Guilty" | Johnson |
| Act violated by Andrew Johnson resulting in vote for his impeachment | Tenure of Office Act | Amendment passed granting full rights and citizenship to blacks | 14th | Nations 8th President | Grant |
| Grant's Vice President | Colfax | Invented teh air brake | Westinghouse | Joined the transcontinental railroad as the Union Pacifice and Central Pacific lines are connected | The Golden Spike at Promontori Point, Utah |
| Amendment passed requiring all southern states to grant all blacks the right to vote | 15th | Tried to corner gold market and cause a panic leading to black Friday | Gould & Fisk | Founded in Philadelphia | Knights of Labor |
| Made survey of the Colorado River | Powell | Defeated the Natchez in the fames Mississippi River boat race | The Robert E Lee | Forms the Standard Oil Company | Rockefeller |
| The effect of a treaty rejected by the senate | annex the Dominican Republic | Symbol the the Democratic Party | Donkey | First black to take a seat in the Senate as a Republican from Mississippi | Revels |
| Opens the great Traveling Museum; Menagerie, Caravan, and the Hippodrome | Barnum | Exposed for corruption in running New York City Government known as Tammany Hall said, "as long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?" | Tweed | Rocked by the credit mobilier railroad bribery scandal whereby officials of the Union Pacific Railroad bribe the officials to try and ward off a Congressional investigation | Grant Administration |
| Won re-election over Greeley | Grant | Grant's second term-vice President | Wilson | Painted Arrangement in Gray and Black which is a portrait of his mother | Whistler |
| America's first National Park | Yellowstone | Pulled off the first bank heist in Adair, Iowa | James | Invented barbed wire | Glidden |
| Held at Churchill Downs, Louisville KY winner is Aristide | Kentucky Derby | Implicated in Whiskey Ring scandal whereby distillers bribed government officials to keep taxes collected on alchohol | Babcock | Became the first to use Bessemer process to remove impurities from molten iron | Carnegie steel mill |
| Set up nursery in Santa Rosa, CA | Burbank | The Plant Magician | Burbank | Made the first transmission of human voice with the memorable message, "Watson come here I need you" | Bell |
| Recognized 100 years as the United States held in Philadelphia. Among the exhibits is the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty | Centennial Exhibition | Decimated at Battle of the Little Big Horn by Sioux Indians | Custer | "Commanders" of the Sioux indians | Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse |
| 38th state to enter the union - also known as the centennial state | Colorado | Killed playing cards in the Dakota Territory | Hickok | Hickok's hand of two aces and two 8s | Dead man's hand |
| published Tom Sawyer | Twain | 19th president | Hayes | Hayes' Vice President | Wheeler |
| Removed all Federal Troops from the south, ending reconstruction | Hayes | Surrendered to US Troops saying, "I will fight no more forever" | Chief Joseph | Patented phonograph | Edison |
| Secret Irish terrorist organization broken up as 10 of its members are hanged for murdering police and coal mining officials | Molly Maguires | Detects the two moons of Mars from the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC | Hall | Two Moons of Mars | Deimos, Phobos |
| Observed for the first time on June 14, 1877 | Flag Day | Sued English Critic John Ruskin for defaming his art | Whistler | Dismissed as Chief Customs Collector in NYC | Arthur |
| Organized under Mary Baker Eddy | Church of Christ Scientists | Created long lasting electrical light | Edison | America's 20th President | Garfield |
| Garfield's VP | Arthur | Wrote Ben Hur | Wallace | Former Civil War General | Wallace |
| Founded by eorge Railton | Salvation Army | Originally founded in England in 1865 by WIlliam Booth | Salvation Army | Fugitive shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner in New Mexico Territory | Billy the Kid |
| Billy the Kid's real name | William Bonney | Shot Garfield in a Washington, DC railway station as he was en route to Williams College to give commencement address | Guiteau | "I am a stalward, and Arthur is now president" | Guiteau |
| Became 21st president two and a half months after Garfield was shot when he (Garfield) died | Arthur | Became head of Tuskegee Institute | Washington | Organized US Red Cross | Barton |
| Killded the Clanton brothers at O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona | Wyatt Earp (With brothers Virgil and Morgan and Doc Holliday) | A Century of Dishonor exposes US abuse against Indians | Jackson | published Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings | Harris |
| Killed Jesse James for $10,000 reward, in St. Joseph, MO | Ford | Creatd the US Civil Service, in part as a result of Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker | The Pendelton Act | a steel-cable span from Manhattan to Brooklyn called the Eight Wonder of the World, opens | Brooklyn Bridge |
| Bridge built by John and Washington Roebling | The Brooklyn Bridge | Establishes Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | Cody | Declines overtures to run for president on the Republican ticket: "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected" | Sherman |
| Used slogan, "Ma, Ma where's my Pa," Based on widespread rumors that Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child. | Cleveland | Became the 22nd president | Cleveland | Ran against Cleveland and known as "the Plumed Knight" because Mugwumps left the Republican Party to support Cleveland | Blaine |
| Cleveland's VP | Hendricks | Completed in Washington DC in 1885 - cornerstone was laid in 1848 | Washington Monument | 8 anarchists convicted in this bombing and riot in Chicago in 1886 | Haymarket Square |
| Set the succession of Presidency; Secretary of State follows VP; others follow Secretary of State based on when cabinet department was created: Sec'y of Treasury, Sec'y of War, Atty General, etc. | Presidential Succession Act | Marries the daughter of his ex-partner in the White House | Cleveland | Dedicated in New York Harbor on Bedloe's Island; built by Bartholdi | Statue of Liberty |
| Liberty Enlightening the World | Statue of Liberty | The New Colossus | Lazarus | Constructed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty | Eiffel |
| Surrenders to US troops at Skeleton Canyon, AZ | Geronimo | First head of American Federation of Labor | Gompers | Published first volume of The Winning of the West | Roosevelt |
| Hit of the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | Oakley | Lost the popular vote but won sufficient electoral votes to become the 23rd president | Harrison | Harrison's VP | Morton |
| Makes picture taking universal with Kodak camera | Eastman | "You push the button and we do the rest" | Eastman | Published Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 | Bellamy |
| Casey at the Bat | Thayer | This territory is opened for white settlement and claims for over 2 million acres were staked by 50,000 settlers | Oklahoma Indian Territory | Over 2,000 people died in this flood when a dam breaks and a reservoir behind it empties | Johnstown (Pennsylvania) flood |
| Rochester, MN | Mayo Clinic | How the Other Half Lives shows the terrible living conditions of the poor and immigrants in NYC | Riis | Hull House in Chicago | Addams |
| Around the world in 72 days, beating the fictional itinerary of Jules Verne character Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 days; | Bly | Nellie Bly's real name | Seaman | The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660 - 1783 | Mahan |
| US Seventh Cavalry massacres 150 Sioux Indians, over half of them women and children | Wounded Knee, South Dakota | Killed in skirmish with US troops along Grand River, South Dakota | Sitting Bull | Invented basketball in Springfield, Massachussets | Naismith |
| Published his ten-volume History of the United States | Bancroft | President of the Cetral Pacific Railroad, opens Stanford University in memory of his son | Stanford | built 10 story skyscraper, The Wainwright Building in St. Louis | Sullivan |
| 24th President | Cleveland (again) | Cleveland's VP | Stevenson | Chief immigration station in US | Ellis Island |
| State troops put down strike against thi scompany in Pennsylvania | Carnegie Steel Company | marks 400th annivesary of Columbus' discovery of New World, among attractions is carnival ride created by Geroge Ferris | World Columbian Exhibition | Heavyweight title from John L Sullivan | Corbett |
| wrote The Pledge of Allegiance | Bellamy | Founded the Sierra Club | Muir | Acquitted of ax-murder killings of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachussets | Borden |
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