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Great Events from History: American History, 1850–1918 War, Peace & Growth

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Complete Table of Contents


THE SLAVERY ISSUE


Compromise of 1850


Nashville Convention


Congress Passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act


Formation of the New England Emigrant Aid Company (NEEAC)


Bleeding Kansas


Sacking of Lawrence, Kansas


Pottawatomie Creek Massacre


“Crime Against Kansas”


The Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision


Lecompton Constitution


Lincoln-Douglas Debates


John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry


Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation


Establishment of Freedmen’s Bureau


CIVIL WAR


South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession


Establishment of the Confederate States of America


U.S. Civil War


Confederate Attack on Fort Sumter


First Battle of Bull Run


Mathew B. Brady Authorized to Photograph Civil War


U.S. Civil War Battles


Battle of Gettysburg


Gettysburg Address


Sherman’s “March to the Sea”


Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House


RECONSTRUCTION AND JIM CROW


Black Codes


Ratification of Thirteenth Amendment


Enactment of Black Codes in Mississippi


Reconstruction of the South


Passage of Civil Rights Act of 1866


Passage of First Reconstruction Act


Ratification of Fourteenth Amendment


Formation of the Ku Klux Klan


Ratification of Fifteenth Amendment


Passage of Civil Rights Act of 1875


Compromise of 1877


Ida B. Wells-Barnett Publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases


Plessy v. Ferguson


Washington’s Atlanta Compromise Speech


RELATIONS WITH NATIVE AMERICANS


First Sioux War


Apache Wars


Great Sioux War


Long Walk of the Navajos


Sand Creek Massacre


Comanche Campaign


“Custer’s Last Stand” at Little Bighorn River


Publication of Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor


Dawes Act


Ghost Dance War and Massacre at Wounded Knee


THE NATION EXPANDS


Admission of States to the Union


U.S. Population Growth, 1950–1918


Texas-New Mexico Boundary Act


Admission of California to the Union


Utah Act


Gadsden Purchase


Ostend Manifesto


Lincoln Signs the Homestead Act


Russia Sells Alaska to the United States


Oklahoma Land Rush


America’s “New” Immigration Era Begins


Platt Amendment


Acquisition of the Virgin Islands from Denmark


THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE


Millard Fillmore Becomes President


Election of Franklin Pierce as President


Election of James Buchanan as President


Abraham Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech


Election of Abraham Lincoln as President


Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address


Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson


Election of Ulysses S. Grant as President


Formation of the National Prohibition Party


Disputed Hayes-Tilden Presidential Election


Election of James A. Garfield as President


Chester A. Arthur Becomes President


Ratification of the Geneva Convention


Pendleton Act


Election of Grover Cleveland as President


Election of Benjamin Harrison as President


Election of William McKinley as President


Formation of the Socialist Party of America


Election of William Howard Taft as President


Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Founded


Formation of the Progressive (“Bull Moose”) Party


Election of Woodrow Wilson as President


Ratification of Sixteenth Amendment


Congress Passes the Eighteenth Amendment (“Prohibition”)


WOMEN’S EXPANDING ROLES


Akron Woman’s Rights Convention


Publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin


Richmond Underground during the Civil War


Julia Ward Howe Writes Lyrics for “Battle Hymn of the Republic”


Publication of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women


Wyoming Grants Women the Right to Vote


Opening of First School of Nursing at Bellevue Hospital


Susan B. Anthony Tried for Voting


Formation of American Red Cross by Clara Barton


Susanna Salter: First U.S. Woman Elected Mayor


Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr: Opening of Hull-House in Chicago


Formation of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)


Publication of Margaret Sanger’s Family Limitation


Jeanette Rankin: First Woman Is Elected to Congress


AMERICA’S CULTURE FLOURISHES


The American Novel


American Renaissance in Literature


Founding of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine


Publication of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter


“Jingle Bells” Composed


Publication of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick


Modern New York Times Founded


Publication of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden


Publication of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass


Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper Begins Publication


Founding of The Atlantic Monthly


Morrill Land Grant Act


Establishment of Salvation Army


Publication of Horatio Alger’s Ragged Dick


First Meeting of First Chautauqua Assembly


American Library Association Founded


Publication of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


Purchase of New York World by Joseph Pulitzer


Publication of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


Dedication of Statue of Liberty


Publication of Frederick Jackson Turner’s “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”


The Souls of Black Folk Published


SPORTS, RECREATIONS, AND ENTERTAINMENT


Formation of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, First U.S. Professional Baseball Team


P.T. Barnum Creates the First Modern American Circus


Establishment of Yellowstone U.S. National Park


First Running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs


Opening of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City


Invention of Game of Basketball


First Rose Bowl Game


Production of Film The Great Train Robbery


First Nickelodeon Film Theater Opens


National Audubon Society Established


First Performance of The Follies of 1907 by Florenz Ziegfeld


Robert Edwin Peary’s Expedition to the North Pole


Boy Scouts of America Chartered


Griffith Releases The Birth of a Nation


Volume 2



Complete Table of Contents


AMERICAN COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY


Chinese Immigration


Opening of Japan to Western Trade


Bessemer Patents Improved Steel-Processing Method


Gail Borden Launches Commercial Food Processing


Discovery of the Comstock Lode


Establishment of Macy’s Department Store


Beginning of Commercial Oil Drilling in Pennsylvania


Pony Express Begins Operation


Transcontinental Telegraph Begins Operation


Construction of First Pullman Sleeping Car


U.S. Steelmaking


Completion of First Transcontinental Railroad


Formation of the Standard Oil Company


Ward Launches a Mail-Order Business


Indictments and Trials of “Molly Maguires”


Bell Telephone Patent


Edison Demonstrates the Incandescent Lamp


Opening of the First Woolworth’s “Five Cent” Store


Chinese Exclusion Act


Brooklyn Bridge Opens


Completion of Northern Pacific Railway


World’s First Skyscraper Built


Coca-Cola Introduced


Passage of Interstate Commerce Act


Passage of Sherman Antitrust Act


Testing of First Gasoline-Powered Automobile


Opening of J. C. Penney Department Stores


Wright Brothers’ First Flight


Construction Begins on the Panama Canal


Passage of Federal Reserve Act


Ford Assembly Line Begins Operation


Passage of Clayton Antitrust Act


First Commercial Airline Flight


LABOR FLEXES ITS MUSCLE


Formation of National Labor Union


Formation of the Noble Order of Knights of Labor


Founding of American Federation of Labor


Pullman Strike in Chicago


Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902


Founding of Industrial Workers of the World


Paterson Silk Strike


TRAGEDY AND TURMOIL


Assassination of Abraham Lincoln


Indictment of “Boss” Tweed in New York City


Great Chicago Fire


Panic of 1873


Assassination of President James A. Garfield


Haymarket Square Riot


Assassination of President William McKinley


San Francisco Earthquake


Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire


Sinking of the Titanic


Ludlow Massacre


THE NATION AT WAR


Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine


Spanish-American War


Battle of San Juan Hill


Philippine-American War (1899–1902)


Boxer Rebellion in China


World War I


Germany Begins Extensive Submarine Warfare


Sinking of the Lusitania


Pershing Expedition


Zimmermann Telegram


United States Enters World War I


Formation of Committee on Public Information


Selective Service Act


Espionage Act of 1917


First U.S. Troops Reach France


President Wilson’s Fourteen Points


Sedition Act of 1918


Battle of Belleau Wood


Second Battle of the Marne


Meuse-Argonne Offensive


Signing of Armistice to End World War I


Primary Documents


Alphabetical List of Events


American History Chronology/Timeline


Geographical Index


Key Figures Index