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Rutherford B. Hayes becomes the 19th President of the United States.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
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The U.S. Cavalry engaged the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. This turned out to be the worst defeat for the U.S. and a victorious win for the Plain Indians.
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Railroad companies were cutting wages even though working conditions were already poorly paid and dangerous.
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Republicans and Democrats shifted their attention from the integration of former slaves to the economic recovery.
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Indian leader, Crazy Horse, surrenders to the United States Army in Nebraska because his people were weakened by cold and hunger.
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Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, illuminated the night allowing work to continue .
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James. A Garfield becomes the 20th President of the United States.
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Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st President of the United States.
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Congress passes the Immigration Act. This limits immigration that cannot support themselves, the mentally ill, and criminals from entering the United States.
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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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Grover Cleveland becomes the 22nd President of the United States.
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Congress passes the Dawes General Allotment Act, splitting Indian tribes into individual family units, rather than a single tribal group.
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During this period, Thomas Edison worked on and developed what would later become Motion Pictures. In 1888, he patented the concept of motion pictures and by 1891, he also invented the motion picture camera as well as a motion picture viewer.
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Benjamin Harrison becomes the 23rd President of the United States.
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South and North Dakota, Montana, Washington were admitted as a state to the Union.
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Idaho and Wyoming were admitted as states into the Union.
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The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers strikes at one of Andrew Carnegie's steel mills. The state militia is called in to break the strike, which in turn destroyed the union.
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Grover Cleveland becomes the 24th President of the United States for a second term. He is known to be the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.
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Workers at the Pullman rail car factory strike. They are aided by the American Railway Union. The strike is broken by the arrest of the union's leader, Eugene Debs.
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The Supreme Court Case ruled that discrimination was legal as long as separate facilities were equal.
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William McKinley becomes the 25th President of the United States.
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The explosion of USS Maine result in the intervention of United States in the Cuban War of Independence.
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The Treaty of Paris of 1898 was signed by Spain and the United States ending the Spanish- American War.
