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The National Labor Union was the first national labor federation in the United States.
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The Wyoming Territory grants women the right to vote.
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Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad connect the country by railroad.
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Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly published for the first time.
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"Boss" Tweed controls polictics in New York with one of the most well known and corrupt political machines of all time.
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The Union Pacific Railroad Company hired themselves at inflated prices as the Credit Mobilier company.
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The Comstock Law, enacted in 1873, was a United States federal law which amended the Post Office Act.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform organized.
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Johns Hopkins University graduate school established.
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Republicans and Democrats agree on Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president, but only if soldiers are pulled from the South, thus ending Reconstruction.
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Mary Baker Eddy establishes Christian Science.
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Henry George publishes Progress and Poverty.
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Salvation Army begins its work in America.
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Clara Barton and a circle of her acquaintances founded the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. in 1881.
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Booker T. Washington becomes head of the Tuskegee Institute.
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Garfield defeats Hanock to become the 20th President.
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Charles J. Guiteau shoots President Garfield. He died on September 9.
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Chester Arthur becomes the third President to serve in 1881 after Garfield is assasinated.
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Samuel Gompers founds and leads the American Federation of Labor to relative success in skilled workers benefits.
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Grover Cleveland is elected President.
