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Custer and the Sioux Indians Sitting Bull fought, Custer was wiped out.
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the Indians saw a train as horse because the train transported good just like the horses did.
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Born in dayton ohio, with his brothers mechincs help he invented the first cash register.
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Incumbent President Rutherford Hayes did not seek re-election, keeping a promise made during the 1876 campaign. The Republican Party eventually chose another Ohioan, James A. Garfield, as their standard-bearer. The Democratic Party meanwhile chose Civil War General Winfield S. Hancock as their nominee.
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Founded by Clara Barton helps the citizens in need and in disasters
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As Garfield’s carriage pulled up outside the Baltimore and Potomac, Charles Guiteau paced the waiting room inside, ready to fulfill what he believed was a mission from God
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On November 4, 1884, New York Governor Grover Cleveland narrowly defeated Republican former United States Senator James G. Blaine of Maine to become the first Democrat elected President of the United States since the election of 1856, before the American Civil War.
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In 1884, one third of the world's cotton passed through New Orleans, and the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, which opened Dec. 16 that year, brought more than 1 million visitors to the city to celebrate 100 years of the cotton industry.
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Grover Cleveland defeated Benjamin Harrison
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a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. ... The Haymarket Riot was viewed a setback for the organized labor movement in America, which was fighting for such rights as the eight-hour workday.
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Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation.
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The March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of eleven Italian Americans in New Orleans, Louisiana by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of police chief David Hennessy after some of them had been acquitted at trial. It was the largest single mass lynching in U.S. history.
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The Homestead strike, in Homestead, Pennsylvania, pitted one of the most powerful new corporations, Carnegie Steel Company, against the nation’s strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
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Westinghouse initially did not put in a bid to power the Fair but agreed to be the contractor for a local Chicago company
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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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
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The United States presidential election of 1900 was the 29th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1900. In a re-match of the 1896 race, Republican President William McKinley defeated his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan.
