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14th Amendment Ratified
Congress granting any citizen or worker born in the United States, 8-hour work days. -
The forming of standard oil of ohio
US population: 39,818,449.
Hiram R. Revels from Mississippi becomes the first African American to play a roll in the US Senate. -
Mail!
Montgomery Ward begins to sell goods to rural customers by mail. -
The Comstock Act
This act prohibits the mailing of obscene or racial literature. Then when the finacial panic of 1773 happens, 5,183 business fail. -
Civil Rights Act
This act guaranteed use of public accommodations and places of public portion. It also forbids the exclusion of African Americans from jury duty. -
Invention of the Telephone
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. -
First Automobile
Karl Benz, a German engineer that produced the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine. -
Let there be LIGHT!
Thomas Edison, the man who invented something we use everyday. the lightbulb. -
we.are.rising
The United Stated population is now estimated around 50,155,783. -
No Chinese!
Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, forbiding Chinese immigration for ten years to the U.S. -
Skyscrapers!?
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. -
8-hour work day
Over 30,000 workers show how to take an 8-hour work day -
The Haymarket Square Bombing
Happened in Chicago killing seven police officers and wounded sixty. -
Statue of Liberty
President Grover Cleveland unveils the Statue of Liberty. -
Samuel Gompers
The American Federation of Labor was founded, with Samuel Gompers as president. -
The Interstate Commerce Act
This act requires railroads to charge reasonable rates and forbids them from from offering rate reductions to preferred customers. -
The Dawes Severalty Act
subdivides Indian reservations into individual plots of land of 160 to 320 acres. "Surplus" lands are sold to white settlers. -
Edward Bellamy
publishes his utopian novel, Looking Backward, which predicts a cooperative commonwealth. -
Opening Oklahoma
President Benjamin Harrison opens a portion of Oklahoma to white settlement. -
Too much water in Johnstown
An abandoned reservoir breaks, flooding the city of Johnstown, Pa., and killing 2,295 people. -
Congress just keeps passing laws..
Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. -
Population
The U.S population is now estimated around 62,947,714. -
Mississippi
Mississippi restricts black suffrage by requiring voters to demonstrate an ability to read and interpret the US Constitution. -
Mobs Break Loose
A New Orleans mobs breaks into a prison and kills eleven Sicilian immigrants accused of murdering the city's police chief. -
Indian Reservations
900,000 acres of land ceded to the Sauk, Fox, and Pottawatomi Indians is opened to white settlement. -
I know you are, but what am I?
The boll weevil arrives in Texas. -
Coxey's Army
Jacob Coxey leads a march on Washington by the unemployed. -
Who cares about the supreme court?
The supreme court strikes down another income tax, of course.. -
Plessy V.
The US Supreme Court rules that segregation of blacks and whites was permitted under the Constitution so long as both races receive equal facilities. -
Annexing
President McKinley signs a resolution annexing Hawaii.
