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The Civil Rights Act was enacted by the 43rd United States Congress, and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. Its aim was to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights.
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On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone.
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On August 1, 1876, Colorado becomes the 38th state in the United States of America.
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The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal, disputing the 1876 presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, formally ending the Reconstruction Era.
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The Nez Perce War was an armed conflict against the United States Army. It ended when Chief Joseph surrendered.
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The Great Railroad strike of 1877 began from a pay cut to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad workers. They halted the trains and stood guard for any attempts to stop their riots. These strikers would not allow the trains to run until their wages were brought back up, removing the recent pay cut.
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On October 14, 1877, Thomas Edison invented light bulb.
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James A. Garfield was a brigadier general during the Civil War, and he won the Presidential election of 1880.
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On July 2, 1881, President Garfield was shot. He died on September 19, 1881.
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The Dawes Act of 1887 was enacted by the 49th United States Congress on February 8, 1887. It authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Native Americans.
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On November 2, 1889, North Dakota becomes an individual state within America.
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South Dakota becomes a state on November 2, 1889.
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On November 8, 1889, Montana becomes an official state.
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On November 11, 1889, Washington becomes a state of America.
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On July 2, 1890, the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed. Its goal was to prevent the artificial raising of prices by restriction of trade or supply. However, many people critiqued it for harming the society.
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On July 3, 1890, Idaho becomes a state of America.
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Wyoming becomes a state on July 10, 1890.
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On July 14, 1890, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act was passed in the request of farmers and miners in the name of their interests.
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The Tariff Act of 1890 was enacted to protect domestic industries from foreign competition. It did this by raising the average duty on imports to almost fifty percent.
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The Baltimore crisis was an incident that took place between Chile and the United States. Triggered by the stabbing of two United States Navy sailors, the crisis ended with the United States government demanding an apology, and Chile paying a $75,000 indemnity.
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The leaders of the Carnegie Steel company, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, decided they would cut the wages of the workers’ of the Amalgamated Association of Iron union in Homestead, so that the costs of production could be lowered. The wages of 325 employees were cut, and the workers soon began to rally against the business militarily. Seven workers were killed.
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The Panic of 1893 was an economic depression in the United States. It influenced every sector of the economy greatly; banks closed, farms closed, stocks decreased, and the unemployment rate skyrocketed.
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Wages fell 30%, resulting in twenty-five hundred of the thirty-one hundred workers walking. Later that day, the company laid off the remaining six hundred. This strike was an event in American labor history that would affect a large portion of the country, moving the public opinion strongly towards the rights of workers.
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On January 4, 1896, Utah became the 45th state of America.
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The USS Maine was a Navy ship sent from Florida to Havana, Cuba, to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban War for independence. It exploded in Havana Harbor during the Cuban revolt against Spain o n February 15, 1898, and became a major political issue in the United States.
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Beginning from the explosion of the USS Maine, the Spanish-American War impacted thousands. It ended with the Treaty of Paris a few months after its start.
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The American Anti-Imperialist League was an organization against the annexation of the Philippines. It advocated that imperialism was a violation to the fundamental principle.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed by Spain and the United States, ending the Spanish–American War. It helped the United States became a world power.
