Timeline

1860–1864 ∼ Civil War

Telegraph / hot-air balloon / ironclad ships / submarines / repeating rifles / machine guns

MILESTONES: Silver rush (1860–1880) • Proliferation of sewing machines (1860s) • One-fifth of the American population is killed in the Civil War (1861–1865) • Homestead Act promises land to pioneer settlers (1862) • Indian uprisings (1862–1867) • Irish and Chinese laborers build transcontinental railroad across the U.S.(1862–1869)

1898–1902 ∼ Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection

U.S. Imperialism / yellow journalism / women’s nursing corps / Monroe Doctrine / Panama Canal begun

MILESTONES: Women enrolled in college rises from 20 percent in 1870 to 40 percent in 1910 • Henry Ford begins production of the gas-powered automobile (1896) • Alaskan gold rush begins after the discovery of gold in the Klondike (1897) • Spoiled food and yellow fever kill U.S. troops in...