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He becomes the 19th President of the United States.
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The cause of this war was the desire of the US government to obtain ownership of the black hills. This war was between Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and the United States.
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Inventor Alexander Graham Bell successfully transmits a human voice over a wire. The telephone will revolutionize personal and business communication.
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Texas farmers form the first agricultural labor union in Lampasas, Texas. They call themselves the "Farmers' Alliance".
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The Federal Government pulls out of the South, and Democrats return to power, undoing much of the progress in the region.
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The workers' campaign for higher wages was ultimately a failure, but it sowed the seeds for the formation of the first labor unions.
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Henry George writes his best-selling book, Progress and Poverty.
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He displays his lights and generators to reporters and investors
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He becomes the 20th President of the United States
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Cyrus McCormick hires a new production manager to industrialize his plants. It served to increase output to double in five years.
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He becomes the 21st President of the United States
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Sitting Bull surrenders to the United States Army, ending major Native American resistance to white settlers
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President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau, a deranged federal office-seeker. Garfield will die on September 19th. Vice President Chester A. Arthur will be sworn is as president one day later.
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Congress passes the Immigration Act. This limits immigrants that cannot support themselves, the mentally ill, and criminals from entering the United States
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Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese immigrants from entering the country.
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William "Buffalo Bill" Cody starts his Wild West show. This served to romanticize the West in the eyes of the population.
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America's railroads implement the standardized time zones (Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific) devised by William F. Allen of the General Time Convention.
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The United States Congress passes the Pendleton Act, introducing an examination system for selecting federal civil servants. Only 10% of all federal appointees are made subject to this process of selection by examination.
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Cowboys in Pecos, Texas compete in what is later called the first Rodeo
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The U.S. Supreme Court finds part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional and decides to now allow individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.
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He become the 22nd President of the United States
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Three to five hundred workers go on strike in an effort to gain an eight-hour work day. A rally in Chicago's Haymarket Square in support of striking workers from McCormick Harvester Works ends when a bomb is thrown, killing six policemen and wounding more than 60 others.
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Congress Passes the Interstate Commerce Act. This aids in stopping discriminatory pricing in businesses.
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Congress passes the act, splitting Indian tribes into individual family units, rather than a single tribal group.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II ascends to the German throne
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Edward Bellamy publishes "Looking Backward", a novel urging reform in American industry
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He becomes the 23rd President of the United States
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The first Wall Street Journal was published.
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act is passed. This prevents some of the business practices used by monopolies to limit competition
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Jacob Riis publishes "How the Other Half Lives", detailing the lives of the urban poor.
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1,300 delegates gather at Omaha, Nebraska to select a presidential nominee and draft a platform for the recently formed Populist Party.
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Two barges filled with armed Pinkerton Detectives attempt to land at Homestead to guard Carnegie's steel plant. Striking steel workers prevent the barges from landing. During the 14-hour battle, seven steel workers and three detectives are killed.
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The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, instructs it members not to handle Pullman cars in support of the striking workers at Pullman's factory.
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He is elected president of the United States, receiving 7,035,638 popular votes. Democrat and Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan receives 6,467,946 votes.
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Conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the explosion of USS Maine in Havana harbor in Cuba, that led to the U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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Spain ceded its longstanding colony of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris.
