1876-1900

  • Great Railroad Strike

  • Crazy Horse led a band of Oglala Sioux to surrender

  • Native population of California had collapsed

  • nearly four hundred thousand men labored in the railroad industry.

  • Period: to

    Wild West shows became popular

  • Indigenous powers had been defeated

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Immigration Act

  • Buffalo Bill launched his touring show

  • Chicago Haymarket affair

  • Period: to

    Beginning of Labor Stikes

  • Dawes General Allotment Act

  • Interstate Commerce Act

  • Pawnee Bill’s Historic Wild West show started

  • Wilhelm II rose to the German throne

  • Northern Paiute prophet Wovoka experienced a great revelation

  • South Dakota became a state

  • Chief Sitting Bull and several others were killed

  • Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives

  • General Federation of Women’s Clubs formed

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  • Populists’ first national election campaign

  • World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago

  • Edison Vitascope could project film

  • National Association of Colored Women organized

  • Start of Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

  • acquisition of Hawaii

  • Treaty of Paris

  • The American Anti-Imperialist League, founded

  • United States was the world’s leading manufacturing nation

  • Congress passed the Gold Standard Act

  • Populism had exploded in popularity.