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While in the United States, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. -
The Battle of Little Bighorn was a battle was fought near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, pitted federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. -
Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president in one of the most controversial elections in American history. While he lost the popular vote, the Republican was victorious in the election. -
Thomas Edison is the first person to invent the lightbulb, changing history for the better. -
The Haymarket Square Riot was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States. -
The wounded Knee Massacre was part of the Ghost Dance War and the Sioux Wars. It occurred near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The U.S. Cavalry troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota and when the massacre was over, between 250 and 300 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 were wounded. -
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark decision.The U.S. Supreme Court established the doctrine of "separate but equal," which laid the foundation for decades of unjust racial segregation in the South.
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The Spanish American War was triggered by the explosion of the battleship USS Mine in the Havana Harbor.