1876-1900 By Josh Allen 1877 Nez Perce War 1877 The Great Railway Strike Period: 1880 to 1889 Drought severly damages farms and livestock in the west 1881 James Garfield shot and killed 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act passed 1882 Standard Oil Trusts began 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act passed 1885 Cleveland elected President 1886 Haymarket Square riot 1886 American Federation of Labor founded 1887 Interstate Commerce Act passed 1887 Dawes Act passed 1888 Northern Pacific Railroad completed 1889 Hull House opened 1890 Jacob Riis published "How the Other Half Lives" 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed 1890 The Battle at Wounded Knee 1891 Hawaii Anexed 1892 J. P. Morgan forms General Electric 1892 Homestead Steel Strike 1893 Cleveland reelected 1893 Stock Market Crash 1894 Pullman Strike 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson 1897 William McKinley elected President 1898 Spanish American War 1899 Open Door Policy passed