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congress enacts and 8 hour workday by the goverment.
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the 14th admendment was adopted by us constitution. the unitied states and guarantees due to keep the protection of the laws
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a golden spike is drivin into the ground to complete the transcontinental railroad
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the fifteenth admentment is passed. it gives people the right to vote and it doesnt matter of your race, color, or anything
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Congress declares that Indian tribes will no longer be treated as independent nations
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Congress declares that Indian tribes will not be treated as independent nations
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susan women's suffrage advocates are arrested for attempting to vote in Rochester, N.Y.
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The Financial Panic of 1873 begins. 5,183 business fail.
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barb wire is introduced the first way to keep cattle fenced
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29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
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charley brewster ross was ubducted. he was the first kidnapping and he was never found
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The Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, is sued by newspaper editor Theodore Tilton for alienation of his wife's affections. the trail said he should be hung. so he got hung
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Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to guarantee equal use of public and places of public amusement. It also forbids the exclusion of African Americans from jury duty.
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George A. Custer and 265 officers and enlisted men are killed by Sioux Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Little Horn River in Montana.
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n electoral commission declares Rutherford Hayes the winner of the disputed presidential election.
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The Great Railroad Strikes begins in Marinsburg, W. Va., after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad imposes a 10 percent wage cut.
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30-year-old Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
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US population: 50,155,783 how many people that are in the united states
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President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau, He died on Sept. 19.
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William Jenney's ten-story Home Insurance Company, marking the birth of the skyscraper.
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The Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago kills seven police officers and wounds sixty.
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The World's Columbian Exhibition opens in Chicago to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World. The first features the first Ferris Wheel
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the populist party in found in cinncinatiy ohio
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the supreme court stricks down on taxes
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900,000 acres of land ceded to the Sauk, Fox, and Pottawatomi Indians is opened to white settlement.
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Pro-American interests depose Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii.
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Jacob Coxey leads a march on Washington by the unemployed.solders.
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Jacob Coxey leads a march on Washington by the unemployed.
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Federal troops enforce a court. the American Railway Union from interfering with interstate commerce and delivery of the mail.
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The Supreme Court rules that a child born of Chinese parents in the United States is an Americanand cannot be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
