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The presidential election ending with no majority winner, resulting in the Compromise of 1877, where Democrat Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president. Considered the end of Reconstruction. -
President Arthur signs the act into law, barring immigration to Chinese Laborers. -
A protest held in Chicago's Haymarket Square led to the death of 1 officer and the death sentence for 7 protestors. -
A massacre of the Lakota People by the US military, signaling to some the end of the American Indian Wars. -
A over-evaluation of railroads led to the closure of many businesses and left vast amounts of people unemployed. -
Workers Strike at Pullman Company, where President Cleveland sends the National Guard to quell it. -
A professor at Atlanta University, W. E. B. DuBois delivers a series of speeches at Niagara Falls which forms a movement dubbed the "Niagara Movement" ultimately creating the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in 1909. -
A antitrust suit which ultimately found Standard Oil of anti-competitive practices and split it into numerous other companies.
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The onset of World War 1 saw the US hesitant to join, much preferring isolationism. Until Germany was caught asking Mexico to invade the US, where the US was forced to change policy and enter the war
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A movement centered around Harlem, New York which proliferated the culture and struggle of many African Americans which lasted until the mid 1930s. -
A amendment to the Constitution which prohibited denial of the right to vote on the basis of sex. Essentially, giving women the right to vote. -
A trial where two Italian immigrants were charged with murder, without direct evidence. However, it was heavily discussed that the two were Anti-Capitalist. This showed the anti-communist nature of the American people, something which still affects the nation today. -
The Ford company, with its revolutionary concepts in manufacturing, was able to create the first widely-affordable car; the Model T. -
The crash of the New York Stock Exchange was not the sole reason for the Great Depression, but it is widely seen as the start, signaling the decade to come. On October 26th alone, investors lost a combined $14 billion ($251 billion today). -
The nation was at one of its lowest points in History, and with Hoover's allegiance to individualism, change was needed. Franklin Roosevelt campaigned for president under a promise of change, and won in a landslide. In his first 100 days, Roosevelt had helped to quell some of the more immediate issues the country faced, though the road ahead of him was long and hard. -
The deadliest conflict in history, totaling around 70-85 million deaths. President Roosevelt had tried to keep the US out of the conflict, but when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, he realized there was no other choice. Increased wartime efforts in the US finally put the Great Depression to its final rest.
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The dropping of 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man' on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, ushered in a new age for the world. An atomic age. -
The USSR detonated their first atomic bomb, signaling to the world, and the US, that they were an atomic power. No longer was the US alone in its military supremacy. A power struggle between the two nations would last the rest of the century. -
Brown v. Board of Education was a Supreme Court ruling which determined that Plessy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal" doctrine was unconstitutional. This event was a major landmark in the Equal Rights Movement. -
An African American boy, Emmett Till, was brutally abducted from his home in Mississippi and murdered by 2 members of the Ku Klux Klan for allegedly saying a remark to a white clerk. The brutality of the murder left many in shock and angry.