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The U.S federal troops are defeated by the tribe of Sioux Indians near the Little Bighorn River in Montana.
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The first home telephone line is built from Boston to Somerville. The following year, President Hayes has the first telephone installed in the White House.
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President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill that allowed female attorneys to argue in Supreme Court cases
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James A. Garfield is elected as the 20th president of the United States in 1880, only to be shot and deceased one year later.
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President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty as a gift from the people of France on what is now known as Liberty Island in New York Harbor
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National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) is founded, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president.
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Grover Cleveland is inaugurated a second time, as the 24th president. He is the only president who served two nonconsecutive terms.
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Landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional. Thus influencing the Jim Crow laws of segregation.
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The war originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, and the intervention of the U.S. to aid Cuba's independence. The sinking of the USS Maine ignited the declaration of war.
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Sanford B. Dole declared Hawaii as independent because of nationalistic ideas that rose from the Spanish-American War. To prevent further conflict, the US annexed Hawaii.
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American Samoa was acquired under the Treaty of Berlin between Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. The islands are now an unorganized and unincorporated territory of the United States.
