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Commanche Chief Toch-a-way tells General Philip Sheridan that he is a good Indian. Sheridan tells him in return that "the only good Indian is a dead one".
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Hiram Revels becomes the first black man to serve in the U.S. Senate.
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Congress declares that Indian tribes will no longer be treated as independent nations with whom the government must conduct negotiations
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Congress is demanded by Victoria Woodhull to give women the right to vote.
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There is a big fire in the city of Chicago.250 people were killed and 17,500 buildings were destroyed.
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The Act prohibits the mailing of obscene literature.
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The panic begins in 1873. 5,183 business fail because of the The Comstock Act.
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At the age of 4 year old, she is abducted. It was the country's first kidnapping for ransom. She was was never found.
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Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1876 to guarantee equal rights. It also forbids the exclusion of Afican Americans from jury duty.
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Bell created the phone when he was only 29 years old.
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George Custer and 265 men are killed by Sioux Indians. The Sioux were led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Little Horn River in Montana.
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A well know preacher is sued by Theodore Tilton, a newspaper editor for a crime involving his wife. The jury could not decide a verdict.
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President Hayes withdraws federal troops from the south. This marks the end of Reconstruction.
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Chief Joseph is captured and forced to live on an Oklahoma reservation .
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Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
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The Senate defeats amendment 34-16, woman's suffrage.
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"Century of Dishonor" by Helen Hunt Jackson tells the story about the government's unfair treatment of Native Americans.
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President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau. He was killed on July 2.
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Sioux Indians, including Sitting Bull, return to the U.S. from Canada.
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Pendelton Act is passed by Congress which fills government positions by a merit system.
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The statue of liberty is introduced to the United States by President Grover Cleveland.
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Mississippi restricts the right to vote for African Americans by having them read and analyze the Constitution.
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Basketball is invented by a physical education teacher, James Naismith, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Jacob Coxey lead a march of the unemployed on Washington.
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The Pullman Sleeping Car Plant go on strike after the company cuts wages.
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The American Railway Union is forbidden to interfere with the delivey of mail and interstate commerce.
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The idea of an income tax is struck down by The Supreme Court.
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The United States wins the Phillipines, Guam, and Puerto Rico due to the result of the Spanish American War.
