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An inventor known as Alexander Graham Bell successfully transmitted a person's voice over a wire on March 10, 1876, marking the creation of the first telephone. The telephone revolutionized personal and business communication, making it easier for individuals to communicate with each other.
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Brakemen and firemen from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad walked off at Camden Junction, Maryland, initiating a major strike that would end up shutting down thousands of miles of railroad track throughout the Northeastern United States. -
Republican James Garfield is elected as the 20th president of the United States. He took victory over the opposing candidate, Democrat Winfield Hancock. -
President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau, a deranged federal office-seeker shortly after being elected president. Vice-President Chester A. Arthur would be sworn as president a day later. -
In hopes of reducing corruption in the distribution of government jobs, the United States Congress passed the Pendleton Act, which introduced an examination system for selecting federal civil servants. -
Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James Blaine and was elected president as the 22 president of the United States. -
A rally in Chicago's Haymarket Square in support of striking workers from McCormick Harvester Works ended when a bomb was thrown, killing six policemen and wounding more than sixty others. There were eight people convicted for the crime, but all supporters of unions were found guilty by association in the public eye. -
Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected as the 23 president of the United States beating the candidate Grover Cleveland. -
Industrialist Andrew Carnegie published an essay entitled "The Gospel of Wealth", which outlined the social responsibilities and social benefits of those that were wealthy. -
Two barges filled with armed Pinkerton Detectives attempted to land at Homestead to guard Carnegie's steel plant. Striking steel workers prevented the barges from landing, which turned into the fourteen-hour battle, where seven steelworkers and three detectives were killed. -
Workers employed at the Pullman Company, outside of Chicago, went on strike when the company's owner, George Pullman, refused to reduce rents in the company housing to match announced wage cuts. -
The American Railway Union president Eugene Debs was arrested for violating a court order, and being in support of the Pullman strike. -
Republican William McKinley was elected as the 25th president of the United States over Democrat candidate William Jennings Bryan -
This was a youth-led campaign to force change in the way that Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst's newspapers compensated their force of newsboys or newspaper hawkers
