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Invention of the telephone
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell -
The Battle of Little Big Horn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custer's Last Stand, marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. -
Invention of the light bulb
Invented by Thomas Edison -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
The Haymarket Riot
On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. -
The Dawes Severalty Act
Approved on February 8, 1887, "An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations," known as the Dawes Act, emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes. -
The Johnstown Flood
The great Johnstown flood of 1889 is remembered as the worst disaster by dam failure in American history. -
Jim Crow Laws Become the Law of the Land
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Populist party formed
No decision was made to form a political party, but when the Republican and Democratic parties both straddled the currency question at the 1892 presidential conventions, a convention was held at Omaha, and the Populist party was formed -
The Homestead Strike
Homestead Strike, also called Homestead riot, violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6, 1892, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. -
The Pullman Strike
The economic depression of 1893 set the conditions for the Pullman Strike of 1894. When the Pullman railroad car company laid off workers and slashed their wages, the American Railway Union led a national strike that shut down the country's railroad system. -
Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" Speech
In a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 18, 1895, Washington asserted that vocational education, which gave blacks an opportunity for economic security, was more valuable to them than social advantages, higher education, or political office. -
Henry Ford's First Automobile
The 1896 Quadricycle, the first automobile that Henry Ford built, came to symbolize all of the later success achieved by Mr. Ford and Ford Motor Company -
The Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.