1876-1900 By Alexiachidester1999 1877 Great Railroad Strike 1877 Crazy Horse led a band of Oglala Sioux to surrender 1880 Native population of California had collapsed 1880 nearly four hundred thousand men labored in the railroad industry. Period: 1880 to 1900 Wild West shows became popular 1881 Indigenous powers had been defeated 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 Immigration Act 1883 Buffalo Bill launched his touring show 1886 Chicago Haymarket affair Period: 1886 to 1894 Beginning of Labor Stikes 1887 Dawes General Allotment Act 1887 Interstate Commerce Act 1888 Pawnee Bill’s Historic Wild West show started 1888 Wilhelm II rose to the German throne 1889 Northern Paiute prophet Wovoka experienced a great revelation 1889 South Dakota became a state 1890 Chief Sitting Bull and several others were killed 1890 Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives 1890 General Federation of Women’s Clubs formed 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1892 Populists’ first national election campaign 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago 1896 Edison Vitascope could project film 1896 National Association of Colored Women organized 1898 Start of Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars 1898 acquisition of Hawaii 1898 Treaty of Paris 1899 The American Anti-Imperialist League, founded 1900 United States was the world’s leading manufacturing nation 1900 Congress passed the Gold Standard Act 1995 Populism had exploded in popularity.