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First transalantic cable connects from North America to Europe.
reducing the communication time between North America and Europe from ten days the time it took to deliver a message by ship to a matter of minutes. -
Jane Addams opens Hull House
The Hull House opened its doors to recently arrived European immigrants. -
President Lincoln was assassinated
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln. -
Alaska was pruchased by the U.S from Russia
the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million dollars. -
President Andrew Johnson was impeached
U.S. Congress. For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. -
The Fourteenth Admendment Radified.
Granted all citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States. -
Fifteenth Amendment Ratified.
The15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote. -
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. -
Standard Oil organized by Rocketfeller
Rockefeller formed Standard Oil of Ohio, which rapidly became the most profitable refiner in Ohio. -
Belkl Patents The Telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone. -
Battle of Litttle Big Horn.
ederal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Custer against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. -
Edison invented the electric light
Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb. -
President Garfield was assassinated
Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at 9:30 am, less than four months into Garfield's term as the 20th President of the United States. -
The Chinese Exclution Act.
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
The Pendleton Act enacted.
Congress passed the Civil Service Act, which is sometimes referred to as the Pendleton Act after U.S. Senator George Hunt Pendleton. -
The Brooklyn Bridge Opened.
it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. -
The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States.
The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France. -
Sherman Anti-TrustActed passed.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
The battle of the Wounded Knee.
U.S. troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors. -
Ellis island opened.
Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station. -
Duryea brothers built the first automobile.
The first ever working American gasoline-powered automobile in a portion of Springfield, Massachusetts. -
Plessy vs Ferguson.
It later became to be known as "separate but equal." -
The Spanish American War.
The Spanish American War took place in the Phillippines, Cuba, Purto Rico, and Guam the Caribbean Sea, and the Asia Pacific -
President McKinley was assassinated.
McKinley was shaking hands with the public when he was shot by Leon Czolgosz. -
The first raido signals sent by Marconi
At a site set up in St. John's, Newfoundland, Guglielmo Marconi revolutionized international communications when he heard three little clicks S” in Morse code. -
The first powered flight by the Wright Brothers.
The Wrights made the first sustained, controlled, powered heavier-than-air manned flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. -
Hawaii becomes apart of the United States.
Dwight D. Eisenhower signed that Hawaii is now apart of the United States. -
Treaty signed by the U.S and Panama allowing the U.S to build canal.
President Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty promising to give control of the canal to the Panamanians by the year 2000.
