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Dr. Staton Coit opens the first settlement house in New York
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First skyscraper built
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over 3,000 worked demonstrate in behalf of an eight-hour work day
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The Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago kilss seven police officers and wounds sixty
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Corporations are persons covered by the 14th Amendent , and are entilted to due process.
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President Grover Cleveland unviels the Statue of Liberty.
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The American Federation of Labor was founded with Samuel Gompers as president.
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It requires rialroads to charge reasonable rates and forbids them from offering rate reductions to preferred customers.
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This act subdivides Indian reservations into individual plots of land of 160 to 320 acres.
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He published his utopian novel, Looking Backward.
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President Benjamin Harrison opens a portion of Oklahoma to white settlement.
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An abandoned reservoir broke killing 2,295 people.
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Congress passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
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Restricts black suffrage by requiring voters to demonstrate an ability to read and interpret the US Constitution.
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Indian police kill Sitting Bull in South Dakota.
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Break into a prison and kills 11 Sicilian immigrants accused of murdering the city's police chief.
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The Populist party was found in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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The land was ceded to the Sauk, Fox, and Pottawatomi Indians, it was nw opened to white settlement.
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Opened to screen immigrants, twenty million passed through before it was closed in 1954.
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Henry Clay Frick managed Andrew Carnegie's steelworks at Homestead. He cut wages which caused a strike on July 26. Ten strikers and three Pinkertons were killed. Pennsylvania's governor then sent in the state militia to protect strikebreakers. It ended on November 20.
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James Baird Weaver, a former Union general from Iowa, was nominated by the Populist party for president.
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It was open in Chicago to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World.
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Pro-American interests depose Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii.
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Jacob Coxey lead a march on Washington by the unemployed.
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Workers at the Pullman sleeping car plant in Chicago went on strike after the company cut thier wages.
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Federal troops forbid the American Railway Union from interfering with interstate commerce and delivery of the mail.
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supreme court strikes down an income tax
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U.S, suoreme court rules that segregation of balcks and whites was permitted under the constitution as long as everyone is treated equally.
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William Jennings Bryan gives his cross of gold speech
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Written by the Spanish minister to the Untied States.
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Battleship Maine blows up and sinks
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Defeats the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines.
