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All workers required to work 8 hour days
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Golden spike driven into railroad to finish The railroad
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John D. Rockefeller forms Standard Oil of Ohio
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Claimed 250 Lives and destroyed one third of the city
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Susan B. Anthony and other females arrested for attempting to vote in Rochester, New York.
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There's a Financial Panic, Over 5,000 business's fail
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Charley Brewster Ross is kidnapped from in front of his house, and Is taken for random, his body is never found.
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Barbed-Wire keeps Cattle on the Great Plains Safe, while others struggle.
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29 year old Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.
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Thomas Edison Invents the Phonograph
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Carl Benz makes first car with INternal Combustion Engine
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Thomas Edison invents the first Light Bulb!
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America's population has now hit 50 million people.
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Helen Hunt Jackson's book Century Of Dishonor is released.
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Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, Barring Chinese Immigrants for 10 years.
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United States and Canada adopt standard time.
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First 10 story hgh rise in Chicago, birth of the Skyscraper.
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Glover Cleveland unveils the Statue Of Liberty.
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Johnstown, Pa is flooded killed over 2,200 people.
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American population hits 62 million and rising.
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Indian police kill Sitting Bull in South Dakota.
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Wounded Knee Massacre happens, kills many.
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Mobs in New Orleans break into prison and kill 11 Immigrants in rage.
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Populist Part founded in Cinncinati, Ohio.
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900,000 Acres of land taken form Native's and givent o white settlers.
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Populist party nominates James Baird Weaver for President.
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Supreme Court strikes down Income Tax.
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battleship Maine blows up while anchored in Havana, Cuba.
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If you born in America your a legal American citizen regardless of where your parents were born.
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Pressident McKinley Annexes Hawaii.