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Congress granting any citizen or worker born in the United States, 8-hour work days.
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US population: 39,818,449.
Hiram R. Revels from Mississippi becomes the first African American to play a roll in the US Senate. -
Montgomery Ward begins to sell goods to rural customers by mail.
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This act prohibits the mailing of obscene or racial literature. Then when the finacial panic of 1773 happens, 5,183 business fail.
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This act guaranteed use of public accommodations and places of public portion. It also forbids the exclusion of African Americans from jury duty.
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The telephone was invinted by a 29-year-old man who goes by the name, Alexander Graham Bell. The nation celebrates by opening an International Exhibition in Philadelphia in May.
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Karl Benz, a German engineer that produced the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine.
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Thomas Edison, the man who invented something we use everyday. the lightbulb.
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The United Stated population is now estimated around 50,155,783.
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Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, forbiding Chinese immigration for ten years to the U.S.
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The construction began in Chicago, the building was a steel skeleton, William Jenney's ten-story Home Insurance Company, marking the birth of the skyscraper.
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Over 30,000 workers show how to take an 8-hour work day
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Happened in Chicago killing seven police officers and wounded sixty.
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President Grover Cleveland unveils the Statue of Liberty.
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The American Federation of Labor was founded, with Samuel Gompers as president.
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This act requires railroads to charge reasonable rates and forbids them from from offering rate reductions to preferred customers.
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subdivides Indian reservations into individual plots of land of 160 to 320 acres. "Surplus" lands are sold to white settlers.
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publishes his utopian novel, Looking Backward, which predicts a cooperative commonwealth.
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President Benjamin Harrison opens a portion of Oklahoma to white settlement.
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An abandoned reservoir breaks, flooding the city of Johnstown, Pa., and killing 2,295 people.
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Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
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The U.S population is now estimated around 62,947,714.
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Mississippi restricts black suffrage by requiring voters to demonstrate an ability to read and interpret the US Constitution.
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A New Orleans mobs breaks into a prison and kills eleven Sicilian immigrants accused of murdering the city's police chief.
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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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The boll weevil arrives in Texas.
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Jacob Coxey leads a march on Washington by the unemployed.
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The supreme court strikes down another income tax, of course..
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The US Supreme Court rules that segregation of blacks and whites was permitted under the Constitution so long as both races receive equal facilities.
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President McKinley signs a resolution annexing Hawaii.
