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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
Alexander studied the human voice and communication. On March 10, 1876, after years of work, Bell perfected his most well-known invention, the telephone, and made his first telephone call. -
Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was a Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. More than 10,000 Native Americans had gathered in a camp along the Little Bighorn River in defiance of a U.S. War Department order to return to their reservations or risk being attacked. On June 25, Custer’s 600 men entered the Little Bighorn Valley. Soon, and all of his soldiers were dead. -
The Nez Perce Indians are led by Chief Joseph in a war against the U.S. army
For more than three months, Chief Joseph led fewer than 300 Nez Perce Indians toward the Canadian border, covering a distance of more than 1,000 miles as the Nez Perce outmaneuvered and battled more than 2,000 pursuing U.S. soldiers. Finally, only 40 miles short of his Canadian goal, Chief Joseph was cornered by the U.S. Army, and his people were forcibly relocated to a barren reservation in Indian Territory. -
Brooklyn Bridge is opened between Brooklyn and lower Manhattan
It was the longest suspension bridge in the world. When it opened on May 24, 1883, the world took notice and the entire U.S. celebrated.
It's also a very dependable route for many thousands of daily commuters. -
The American Federation of Labor is Formed
The American Federation of Labor was a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor union. -
The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor
The Statue of Liberty was assembled in Paris by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi in 1885 before being shipped across the Atlantic. It was a statue made of copper, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States. -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887) authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals, transferring traditional systems of land tenure into government-imposed systems of private property. -
Interstate Commerce Act is passed by U.S. Congress
As a result of the failure of states to regulate railroads, the United States Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887. The Interstate Commerce Act required that railroads charge fair rates to their customers and make those rates public. -
The Sherman Anti-trust Act
Approved July 2, 1890, The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a United States antitrust law that regulates competition among enterprises, which was passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. It is named for Sen. John Sherman, its principal author. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks.