Interactive Timeline 1850s-1880s

Ransom Williams and his family lived during very interesting but difficult times. Click on any decade below to explore events in that ten-year time period which affected the Ransom Williams family on the local, state, and national levels. Click on this question mark ? to answer an important question related to the timeline!

Click on red words in the activity to examine primary source documents. Hover on underlined words and terms to discover their definitions.