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The Great Atlantic Tea Company
The Great Atlantic Tea Company is founded and is the precursor of the modern supermarket. This later became known as A&P. -
Homestead Act
United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. -
Morrill Land Grant Act
United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges. For 20 years prior to the first introduction of the bill in 1857, there was a political movement calling for the creation of agriculture colleges. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
"Neither slavery crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
Law Regulating Tenements
New York passes the first law regulating tenements, it required fire escapes for each suite and a window for every room and one toilet for every 20 people. -
Union Pacific
Completion of the Union Pacific, the first transcontinental railroad, it reached Ogden, Utah. -
Barb Wire Fences
Barbed wire fence patented, thus begins the closing of "Free" range. -
Battle of Little Big Horn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army -
Timber and Stone Act
Land that was deemed "unfit for farming" was sold to those who might want to "timber and stone" (logging and mining) upon the land. The act was used by speculators who were able to get great expanses declared "unfit for farming" allowing them to increase their land holdings at minimal expense. -
Native American Literature
Publication of major works on Native Americans, like Our Indian Wards written by Maypenny and A Centruy of Dishonor by Jackson. -
Mass Immigration
The mass immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe begins. (This will peak between 1900 and 1910 with fairly controled immigration until the 1960's when the new wave of migrants will come to America, but this time from Asia, Central and South America. -
More Railroads
Santa Fe, Southern Pacific and Nothern PAcific railroads began -
Brooklyn Bridge
Completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, this paves the way for New York City expansion. -
Civil Rights Cases
Repeal most earlier civil rights legislations and establish segregation as lawful! -
First Settlement House Opens in NYC
Aim of settlement houses is education of the masses and work for social welfare. Jane Adams, Florence Kelley, Graham Taylor were the leaders of this movement. -
Dawes Severalty Act
Dissolution of Community owned Indian land; allowance for individual ownership of government alloted land and citizenship. Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. The stated objective of the Dawes Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society. Individual ownership of land was seen as an essential step. The act also provided that the government would purchase Indian land "excess" to that needed for allotment and open it up for settlement by -
Hatch Act
Puts agricultural experimental stations in every state to expand technology. -
New States
North and South Dakota, Washington, and Montana -
Wounded Knee Massacre
One version of events claims that during the process of disarming the Lakota, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it.A scuffle over Black Coyote's rifle escalated and a shot was fired which resulted in the 7th Cavalry's opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of their own fellow soldiers. -
More States
Wyoming and Idaho granted statehood -
Electric Trolleys
Electric Trolleys replace horse drawn carriages/trolleys and mass transit begins. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
establishment of "separate, but equal" is constitutional! -
Cummins v. County Board of Education
This case will establish that the ruling in Plessy is applied to school boards.