United States 1879

Synopsis

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, located on the site of an army barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was founded by Richard Henry Pratt, an army officer who remained the school's driving force until he resigned in 1904. The purpose of the school, the first nonreservation Indian school funded by the federal government, was to "civilize" Native American children by removing them from their reservations, immersing them in the values of white society, and teaching them a trade.

Timeline

• 1859: Building of the Suez Canal begins.
• 1864: George M. Pullman and Ben Field patent their design for a sleeping car with folding upper berths.
• 1869: The first U.S. transcontinental railway is completed.
• 1871: U.S. troops in the West begin fighting the Apache nation.
• 1876: General George Armstrong Custer and 264 soldiers are killed by the Sioux at the Little Big Horn River.
• 1877: Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph surrenders...