Ush Chapter 5-6
Chapters 5-6
1869: Central Pacific and Union Pacific complete the transcontinental railroad
1870: Red Cloud, chief of the Oglala Sioux, states his people's case in Washington DC
1876: Alexander Graham invents the telephone
1877: Munn vs Illinois establishes government regulation of railroads
1877: Mother Jones supports the Great Strike of 1877
1879: Thomas A. Edison invents a workable light bulb
1880: James Garfield is elected president
1881: Garfield is assassinated. Chester Arthur becomes president
1884: Grover Cleveland is elected president
1886: Haymarket riot turns public sentiment against unions
1889: Oklahoma opened for settlement; the land rush begins
1890: Sioux are massacred at Wounded Knee
1890: Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act
1893: Diminished US gold reserve triggers the panic of 1893
1894: President Cleveland sends federal troops to Illinois to end the Pullman strike
1896: William McKinley is elected president
1896: William Jennings Bryan runs for president
1900: William McKinley is reelected
Westward Expansion
Native Americans vs. Settlers
:Sand Creek
:Cheyenne thought they were under protection of the US gov.
:General S.R. Curtis - want to peace until Indians suffer more
1868 - killed over 150 inhabitants
:Little Bighorn
:Bozeman Trail ran directly through Sioux hunting grounds in the Bighorn Mountains
:Sioux chief: Red Cloud - unsuccessfully w/ gov. abt white settlement
:December 1866 Crazy Horse --> Captain William J. Fetterman @ Lodge Trail Ridge Battle of Hundred Slain Whites call it "Fetterman Massacre"
:Custer 1874 - Black Hill has gold --> gold rush
:1876 - Crazy Horse, Gall, Sitting Bull vs Custer's troops (Custer dead, lost)
:Late 1876: Sioux beaten --> Sitting Bull to Canada --> surrender for ppl's starvation
:1868 Treaty
:Treaty of Fort Laramie
:Gov - close the Bozeman Trail
:Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River
1869: Central Pacific and Union Pacific complete the transcontinental railroad
1870: Red Cloud, chief of the Oglala Sioux, states his people's case in Washington DC
1876: Alexander Graham invents the telephone
1877: Munn vs Illinois establishes government regulation of railroads
1877: Mother Jones supports the Great Strike of 1877
1879: Thomas A. Edison invents a workable light bulb
1880: James Garfield is elected president
1881: Garfield is assassinated. Chester Arthur becomes president
1884: Grover Cleveland is elected president
1886: Haymarket riot turns public sentiment against unions
1889: Oklahoma opened for settlement; the land rush begins
1890: Sioux are massacred at Wounded Knee
1890: Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act
1893: Diminished US gold reserve triggers the panic of 1893
1894: President Cleveland sends federal troops to Illinois to end the Pullman strike
1896: William McKinley is elected president
1896: William Jennings Bryan runs for president
1900: William McKinley is reelected
Westward Expansion
Native Americans vs. Settlers
:Sand Creek
:Cheyenne thought they were under protection of the US gov.
:General S.R. Curtis - want to peace until Indians suffer more
1868 - killed over 150 inhabitants
:Little Bighorn
:Bozeman Trail ran directly through Sioux hunting grounds in the Bighorn Mountains
:Sioux chief: Red Cloud - unsuccessfully w/ gov. abt white settlement
:December 1866 Crazy Horse --> Captain William J. Fetterman @ Lodge Trail Ridge Battle of Hundred Slain Whites call it "Fetterman Massacre"
:Custer 1874 - Black Hill has gold --> gold rush
:1876 - Crazy Horse, Gall, Sitting Bull vs Custer's troops (Custer dead, lost)
:Late 1876: Sioux beaten --> Sitting Bull to Canada --> surrender for ppl's starvation
:1868 Treaty
:Treaty of Fort Laramie
:Gov - close the Bozeman Trail
:Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River