1860s\n*1860 - Pony Express begins\n*1860 - Crittenden Compromise\n*1860 - South Carolina secedes\n*1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President\n*1861 - Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) established under President Jefferson Davis\n*1861 - American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter\n*1861 - Morrill tariff\n*1861 - Kansas admitted to the Union as a free state\n*1861 - Ex Parte Merryman, federal court case which objected to Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus\n*1861 - First Battle of Bull Run\n*1862 - Homestead Act \n*1862 - Pacific Railway Act \n*1862 - Morrill Land Grant Colleges Act \n*1863 - National Banking Act of 1863\n*1863 - Battle of Antietam\n*1863 - Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation\n*1863 - Battle of Gettysburg\n*1863 - Pro-Union counties become sovereign state of West Virginia\n*1863 - New York City draft riots\n*1864 - National Banking Act of 1864\n*1864 - Wade Davis Bill\n*1864 - Sand Creek Massacre\n*1864 - Maximilian Affair\n*1864 - Nevada becomes a state\n*1865 - Abraham Lincoln assassinated\n*1865 - Andrew Johnson becomes President\n*1865 - United States Civil War ends\n*1865 - 13th Amendment\n*1865 - Freedman's Bureau\n*1866 - Civil Rights Act of 1866 \n*1866 - Ku Klux Klan founded\n*1866 - Ex Parte Milligan 71 US 2 1866 rules that civilians cannot be tried in military tribunals when civilian courts are available\n*1867 - Tenure of Office Act\n*1867 - The Grange founded\n*1867 - Reconstruction Acts\n*1867 - Alaska Purchase from Russia\n*1867 - Nebraska becomes a state\n*1868 - Burlingame Treaty\n*1868 - 14th Amendment\n*1868 - Tenure of Office Act\n*1868 - University of California chartered\n*1868 - Carnegie Steel Company founded\n*1868 - Typewriter invented\n*1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President\n*1869 - Wyoming becomes first state to grant woman suffrage\n*1869 - Golden spike nailed in, completing the First Transcontinental Railroad (North America)\n*1869 - James Fisk and Jay Gould's "Black Friday"\n*1869 - Knights of Labor formed 1870s\n*1870 - 15th Amendment\n*1870 - First graduate programs (at Yale and Harvard)\n*1870 - Force Acts\n*1871 - Great Chicago Fire\n*1872 - Yellowstone National Park created\n*1872 - Crédit Mobilier scandal\n*1872 - Amnesty Act\n*1872 - Alabama Claims\n*1873 - Panic of 1873\n*1873 - Virginius Affair\n*1874 - Red River Wars\n*1875 - Aristides wins first Kentucky Derby\n*1875 - Resumption Act\n*1875 - Civil Rights Act of 1875\n*1876 - National League of baseball founded\n*1876 - Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia\n*1876 - Munn v. Illinois establishes public regulation of utilities\n*1876 - Colorado becomes a state\n*1876 - Battle of Little Bighorn\n*1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone\n*1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President and Reconstruction ends with the Compromise of 1877\n*1877 - Nez Percé Indian War\n*1878 - Bland-Allison Act\n*1878 - Morgan silver dollars first minted\n*1879 - Thomas Edison invents light bulb\n*1879 - Knights of Labor go public 1880s\n*1880s - Dust Bowl begins\n*1880 - U.S. population exceeds 50 million for first time\n*1881 - James Garfield inaugurated as President\n*1881 - James Garfield assassinated\n*1881 - Chester A. Arthur inaugurated as President\n*1881 - Clara Barton creates Red Cross\n*1881 - Tuskegee Institute founded\n*1881 - A Century of Dishonor written by Helen Hunt Jackson\n*1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act and European Restriction Act\n*1883 - Civil Rights Cases 109 US 3 1883 legalizes doctrine of segregation\n*1883 - Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act\n*1883 - Brooklyn Bridge opens\n*1885 - Grover Cleveland inaugurated as President\n*1885 - Washington monument completed\n*1885 - Stanford University founded\n*1886 - Haymarket Riot\n*1886 - American Federation of Labor founded in Columbus, Ohio\n*1887 - Congress creates Interstate Commerce Commission\n*1887 - Dawes Act\n*1887 - Hatch Act\n*1888 - Publication of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy\n*1888 - National Geographic Society founded\n*1889 - Benjamin Harrison becomes President\n*1889 - North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington become states\n*1889 - Johnstown flood in Pennsylvania\n*1889 - Jane Addams founds Hull House 1890s\n*1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act\n*1890 - Sherman Silver Purchase Act\n*1890 - McKinley tariff\n*1890 - Yosemite National Park created\n*1890 - Idaho and Wyoming become states\n*1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre\n*1890 - North American Women's Suffrage Association founded\n*1891 - Basketball invented\n*1891 - Baltimore Crisis\n*1892 - Homestead Strike\n*1892 - General Electric Company founded\n*1892 - Sierra Club founded\n*1893 - Grover Cleveland inaugurated President for second term\n*1893 - Panic of 1893\n*1893 - Sherman Silver Purchase Act repealed\n*1894 - Coxey's Army\n*1894 - Pullman strike\n*1894 - Wilson-Gorman tariff, including Income Tax\n*1895 - Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company strikes down part of Wilson-Gorman Tariff\n*1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson 163 US 537 1896 legalizes segregation in railway cars\n*1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech\n*1896 - Gold discovered in Alaska's Klondike\n*1896 - Utah becomes a state\n*1897 - William McKinley becomes President \n*1897 - Boston subway completed\n*1897 - Dingley tariff \n*1898 - USS Maine explodes in Havana, Cuba harbor, precipitating the Spanish-American War\n*1898 - DeLome Letter\n*1898 - Treaty of Paris (1898) ends Spanish-American War\n*1899 - Teller Amendment\n*1899 - Open Door Notes
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