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reducing the communication time between North America and Europe from ten days the time it took to deliver a message by ship to a matter of minutes.
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The Hull House opened its doors to recently arrived European immigrants.
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On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln.
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the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million dollars.
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U.S. Congress. For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson.
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Granted all citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States.
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The15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
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A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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Rockefeller formed Standard Oil of Ohio, which rapidly became the most profitable refiner in Ohio.
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Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone.
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ederal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Custer against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.
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Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb.
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Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at 9:30 am, less than four months into Garfield's term as the 20th President of the United States.
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It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
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Congress passed the Civil Service Act, which is sometimes referred to as the Pendleton Act after U.S. Senator George Hunt Pendleton.
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it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River.
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The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France.
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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U.S. troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors.
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Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station.
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The first ever working American gasoline-powered automobile in a portion of Springfield, Massachusetts.
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It later became to be known as "separate but equal."
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The Spanish American War took place in the Phillippines, Cuba, Purto Rico, and Guam the Caribbean Sea, and the Asia Pacific
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McKinley was shaking hands with the public when he was shot by Leon Czolgosz.
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At a site set up in St. John's, Newfoundland, Guglielmo Marconi revolutionized international communications when he heard three little clicks S” in Morse code.
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The Wrights made the first sustained, controlled, powered heavier-than-air manned flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower signed that Hawaii is now apart of the United States.
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President Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty promising to give control of the canal to the Panamanians by the year 2000.
