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While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci (pictured at left) is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876.
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The first official World's Fair to be held in the U.S. was held in Philadelphia. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
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It was an armed engagement between combined forces.
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On August 1, 1876 (28 days after the Centennial of the United States), U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signed a proclamation admitting the state of Colorado to the Union as the 38th state and earning it the moniker "Centennial State".
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The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among U.S. Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ending the Reconstruction Era.
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Hayes, a lawyer, and staunch abolitionist defended refugee slaves in court proceedings in the antebellum years.
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As a young man, Edison moved to New York City and eventually established a laboratory. In 1877 he invented the phonograph, which used a record made of tinfoil to playback sound.
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James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his death by assassination six and a half months later.
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He is the only sitting member of the United States House of Representatives to be elected to the presidency
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Previously the 20th vice president
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He was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th president of the U.S.
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The initial purpose of the ICC was to control railroads and their unfair business practices.
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The objective of the Dawes Act was to assimilate Native American Indians into mainstream US society by annihilating their cultural and social traditions.
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The National Geographic Society, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
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He was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd president of the U.S.
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South Dakota is an expansive, sparsely populated midwestern U.S. state where rolling prairies give way to the dramatic Black Hills National Forest.
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North Dakota is a midwestern U.S. state dominated by the Great Plains.
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Montana is a western state defined by its diverse terrain ranging from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Plains.
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Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a United States antitrust law that regulates competition among enterprises, which was passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison.
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It officially became U.S. territory with the signing of the Oregon Treaty of 1846, but a separate Idaho Territory was not organized until 1863, instead of being included for periods in Oregon Territory and Washington Territory.
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Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States.
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It not only required the U.S. government to purchase nearly twice as much silver as before but also added substantially to the amount of money already in circulation.
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After 450 amendments, the Tariff Act of 1890 was passed and increased average duties across all imports from 38% to 49.5%.
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The Battle of Wounded Knee, was a domestic massacre of several hundred Lakota Indians, almost half of whom were women and children, by soldiers of the United States Army.
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The Baltimore crisis was a diplomatic incident that took place between Chile and the United States, after the 1891 Chilean Civil War, as a result of the growing American influence in the Pacific Coast region of Latin America in the 1890s
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Workers belonging to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers struck the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead, Pa. to protest a proposed wage cut.
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The crisis was set off by the collapse of the two largest employers, the Philidelphia and Reading Railroad and the National Cordage Company.
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His second term opened the worst financial crisis in the country's history. The Panic of 1893.
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It was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States.
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Utah is a state in the western United States.
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He was president of the U.S. from March 4, 1897, until his assassination six months into his second term.
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Passed by Congress in July 1897, the Dingley Tariff Act increased duties by an average of 57 percent.
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A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship, USS Maine, in Cuba’s Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard.
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The Teller Amendment was an amendment to a joint resolution of the United States Congress
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Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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The American Anti-Imperialist League was an organization established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area.
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It was a joint resolution passed on July 4, 1898, by the U.S. Congress to annex the independent Republic of Hawaii.
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Was signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain & representatives of the U.S. on Sept. 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
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It called for the protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China