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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was a time when the wages in American were higher than the wages in Europe. When immagrant began to travel to America, the amount of employment decreased as did the amount of wealthy people. -
Grant's Election
The United States presidential election of 1868 was the first presidential election to take place during Reconstruction. Three of the former Confederate states (Texas, Mississippi, and Virginia) were not yet restored to the Union and therefore could not vote in the election.Grant won the election by a long shot due to massive popularity in the North, freedmen voting in the South, and the disenfranchisement of many Southern whites. -
Forgettable Presidents
These Presidents did not make a huge impact on history. This included the 18th-25th presidents, Ulyssses S Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and William McKinley. All of these men were in the office during the Gilded Age. -
Yellow Stone National Park
Yellowstone was made the US first national park. It covers more than three and a hallf thousasnd square mile sof land. -
Boss Tweed
Boss Tweed was born in New York City. He cemented his position of power in the city's Democratic Party and thereafter filled important positions with peolpe friendly to his concerns. Once he and his close friends had control of the city government, corruption became horrifically common unitl his eventual arrest in 1873. -
Barbed Wire
Joseph Glidden invented barbed wire. He was given a patent for it in 1874 after he made his own altercations to previous verisons in an attempt to improve his creation. -
Mark Twain
He wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, his real name being Samuel L. Clemens. Two of his major classics of American Literature were: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor. -
Charles J. Guiteau
Charles Julius Guiteau was an american writer and lawyer who was convicted of the assassination of James A. Garfield, the 20th POTUS. Guiteau was offended by Garfield's rejection of his various ob applications, so he shot Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. Garfield died two months later due to infecitons from the injury. Guiteau was hanged for the crime. -
New Millionaires
Poor families became suddenly wealthy during the Gilded Age. In 1882, families such as the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, and the Astors filed up Fifth Avenue, New York, which was once a poor park of New York. The Vanderbilts built railroad tracks that were thousands of miles long. -
Pendleton Act
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of Unisted States is a federal law established in 1883 that decided that government jobs should be awrded on the basis or merit instead of political affiliation. The act provided selection of government employees by competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation. -
The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was given to the US by the Fremch as a gift. A French sculptor named Frederic Auguste Bartholodi designed the statue and Gustave Eiffel was the man who built it. -
Dishwasher
On this date, Josephine Cochrane decided to create a machine that would make womens everyday work a lot easier. In 1886 she invented the dishwasher. This would help reduce the amount of women to wash dishes and the amount of time needed to do so. Dishwasher have evolved greatly since 1886 and are still used everyday in some households. -
Washington and North Dakota
Washington and North Dakota each became a state in the Uited States. They were the 39th and 42nd to be allowed into the Union. -
Basketball
James Naismith was a physical educator who is responsible for the great game of basketball. He invented the gameon and played college basketball. After inventing the game, he was entered into the Hall of Fame without ever actually playing professionally. Now basketball is played all over the world and is a very serious sport. -
Walter Whitman
Walter Whitman was an American poet and journalist. He was one of the most significant 19th century poets. His most famous poetry collection was named Leaves of Grass, and caused controversry because of its subject of sexuality. It was published on 1855. He then died in 1892. -
Founding of Electricity
The great Thomas Edison was a co-founder of electricity. There was a total of four co-founders. In 2011 electricity was labeled as the 14th most valuable company in the entire world. -
Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was a national railroad strike. It was set against American Railway Union and the Pullman Company. This also put the federal government under PResident Grover Cleveland. This event occured because of the way the Pullman Company was treating their workers. -
Hearst and Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer had purchased New York World, a popular news paperstand. Then in 1895, William Hearst purchased New York Journal. Both news stands were makinng up stories to try and out do each other's sales. They used melodrama, romance, and hyperbole to sell newspapers. This became known as Yellow Journalism. -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow Journalism is a tye of newspaper article that was based off of an opinion of made up stroies and not real-world situations. This also include dmajor exaggerations of news events and scandal-mongering. -
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin began to write after her husband's death. "The Awakening" (1899), a realistic novel about the sexual and artistic awakening of a young moother who abandons her family, was initially condemned for its sexual frankness but was later acclaimed. -
Boxer Rebellion
A Secret Chinese group named Society of the Righteous and Harmoniuous Fits, led a rebellion in nourthern China against the Japanese. The rebels were referred to as "Boxers" because of their incredible moves that were believed to make them deflect a bullet. -
Progressivism
In the early 1900s, progressivism became a term that places the subjects of science, technology, economic development, and social organization as a necessary concept for the improvement of the human race. -
Call of the Wild
Call of the Wild was published by the American author Jack London. This novel is about a domesticated dog named Buck who turns out to be a sled dog during the 19th century Klondike Gold rush. This is Lodon's most read book. -
The Jungle
This was a novel written by Upton Sinclair, an American journalist and novelist. This novel was written to show and explain the terrible conditions that the immigrants in Chicago were in. -
Teddy Roosevelt's presidency
Theodore Roosevelt was elected president. He became the 26th president because William McKinley was assassinated.
