History

1876 - 1900

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  • Rutherford B. Hayes elected US President

    This election was controversial as the results were disputed. The Electoral Commission eventually gave the Presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes and the vice presidency to William A. Wheeler.

  • National League of Baseball founded

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    Battle of the Little Bighorn

  • Colorado Established as a State

  • Munn v. Illinois

    Established the power of state governments to regulate private industries in cases that had an effect on the common good.

  • U.S. Population exceeded 50 million

  • Garfield Elected President

  • American Red Cross Founded by Clara Barton

  • Tuskegee Institute Founded by Booker T. Washington

  • Garfield Assassinated by Charles Guiteau

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Grover Cleveland Elected President

  • Washington Monument Built

  • Haymarket Affair

    This event was organized by labor activists that resulted in violence responsible for the deaths of at least eight people.

  • The Dawes Act Passed

    This act allowed the President to divide American tribal lands up amongst individual Native Americans.

  • Benjamin Harrison Elected President

  • South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington established as States

  • Idaho and Wyoming Established as States

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed

  • Yosemite Established as a National Park by Congress

  • Wounded Knee Massacre

    U.S. Calvary slaughtered hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux in South Dakota.

  • Wounded Knee Massacre

    Left 15 Native Americans dead.

  • Carnegie Hall Opened

    New York's Carnegie Hall was opened

  • Homestead Steel Strike

    Townspeople clashed with Pinkerton men

  • Grover Cleveland Elected to U.S. Presidency

  • Panic of 1893

  • Grover Cleveland Reelected to U.S. Presidency

  • Columbian Exposition Opened in Chicago

    The Columbian Exposition was also known as the World's Fair

  • Pullman Strike

  • Utah Established as a State

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Upheld "Jim Crow" segregation laws as Constitutional

  • William McKinley elected to U.S. Presidency

    He ran and won against William Jennings Bryan

  • the Klondike Gold Rush Began

  • McKinley elected President

  • The American ship U.S.S. Main exploded

    It inexplicably combusted in the Havana harbor in Cuba

  • United States declared war on Spain

  • The Battle of Manila Bay

    American forces defeated a Spanish naval force in the Philippines

  • Battle of San Juan Hill

    Roosevelt and the "Rough Riders" attacked Spanish Forces.

  • Hawaii Annexed

  • Treaty of Paris (1898)

    This treaty put an end to the Spanish-American War

  • New York City newsboys went on strike