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The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City.
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Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Army General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, effectively ending the American Civil War.
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The famous Golden Spike was driven into the ground to complete The First Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit in Utah.
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Between 1875 and 1912, eleven new states were admitted into the Union. The western land was being aggressively marketed as the railroad was being built and as people continued to look for gold.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. The telephone was developed while Bell was trying to improve the telegraph.
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Thomas Edison developed the world’s first practical incandescent electric light bulb.
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The first skyscraper is constructed in Chicago
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American Federation of Labor is founded
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Karl Benz was granted a patent for an automobile powered by a gasoline engine.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act was signed into law in 1890, and was intended to prevent businesses from increasing the cost of goods to the consumer.
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The Homestead Strike began on June 30, 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. It was a labor lockout and strike which resulted in a day-long battle between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Carnegie Steel Company.
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The radio is invented
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first U.S. subway is opened in Boston