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Photographer Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives, in 1890, documenting the horrible living conditions immigrants faced living in New York City's tenements
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Wyoming and Idaho are admitted as the 43rd and 44th states in July 1890.
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Artist Vincent Van Gogh died in France at the age of 37 after shooting himself two days earlier. "Eternity's Gate" is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he made in 1890 based on lithograph. The lithograph was based on a pencil drawing Worn Out, one of a series of studies he made in 1882 of a pensioner and war veteran. It was completed in early May at a time when he was convalescing from a severe relapse in his health and some two months before his death, generally accepted as a suicide.
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At the urging of John Muir, The U.S. Congress designated Yosemite a National Park.
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Many Sioux believed if they practiced the Ghost Dance and rejected the ways of the white man, the gods would create the world anew and destroy all non-believers, including non-Indians. The Wounded Knee Massacre took place in South Dakota when U.S. Cavalry troopers tried to arrest Sitting Bull and killed him, then fired on Lakota Sioux who had gathered. The killing of hundreds of unarmed men, women, and children essentially marked the end of Native American resistance to white rule in the West.
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The 51st Congress of the United States passes the International Copyright Act of 1891.
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Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, opens as the main east coast immigration center, and would remain the initial debarkation point for European immigrants into the United States until its closure in 1954. More than 12 million immigrants would be processed on the island during those years. Ellis Island replaced Castle Garden, in Manhattan, as the New York immigration center.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the first performance at New York's Carnegie Hall on May 5, 1891. Became the first Russian composer to be internationally famous. He died 1893.
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The 1893 World's Fair, known as the Columbian Exposition, opened in Chicago. October 30, 1893 - The Chicago World's Fair closes after 179 days of public admission and over 25 million in attendance. It cost $27,291,715 and included a moving sidewalk and the first sighting of picture postcards. Considered by many historians as the greatest national event in American history through the year 1900.
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The New York Stock Exchange collapses because of two major factors; railroads and silver., starting the financial panic of 1893. It would lead to a four year period of depression. An economic depression second only to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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A woman in Fall River, Massachusetts accused of the gruesome ax murder of her father and stepmother. Borden’s 1893 trial, which featured considerable legal talent, expert witnesses, and forensic testimony, in some ways resembled a trial a cable television audience today would find riveting. When she was acquitted of the murders, decades of speculation began.
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Women in Colorado are granted the right to vote.
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Urban centers were growing, and new technologies, such as the introduction of electricity into clothing manufacturing, produced a boom in the ready-to-wear market. Women were enjoying new levels of independence; during the decade the number of women employed outside the home almost doubled. The “New Woman” of the era was an intellectual young female who worked, cycled, and played sports. Women generally arranged their hair in high, neat chignons with soft curls at the front.
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Sino-Japanese War. Japan is victorious and asserts its first gains as an imperial power. Korea is “turned over” (colonized) to Japan and China cedes Taiwan to Japan.
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Coxey's Army, a march to protest unemployment that was largely the result of the Panic of 1893, departed from Ohio on its way to Washington, D.C. Coxey's Army reached Washington, D.C. and its leaders were arrested the next day. The demands of Jacob Coxey, which focused on great government intervention in the economy, would eventually move into the mainstream.
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The lounge or sack suit, featuring a single-breasted jacket without a waist seam, became the most common choice for working men and was increasingly worn by upper-class men as a relaxed alternative day suit. Similar to womenswear, 1890s menswear featured a great deal of sportswear, and those influences were seen in mainstream fashion.
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Frederick Douglass, the ex-slave who rose to prominence in national politics as a civil rights advocate and abolitionist during Civil War times died at his home in Washington, D.C. at the age of 77.
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The first modern Olympic games, the idea of Pierre de Coubertin, are held in Athens, Greece.
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Plessy versus Ferguson decision by the Supreme Court states that racial segregation is approved under the "separate but equal" doctrine. Allows Jim Crow laws to exist in south.
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Gold is discovered by Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie near Dawson, Canada, setting up the Klondike Gold Rush which would cause a boom in travel and gold fever from Seattle to prospector sites surrounding Skagway, Alaska.
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The era of the subway begins when the first underground public transportation in North America opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The blockade of Cuba begins when the United States Navy aids independence forces within Cuba. Several days later, the U.S.A. declares war on Spain, backdating its declaration to April 20. On May 1, 1898, the United States Navy destroyed the Spanish fleet in the Philippines. On June 20, the U.S. would take Guam.
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The Peace Treaty ending the Spanish-American War is signed in Paris. The Spanish government agrees to grant independence to Cuba and cede Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
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Newsboys in New York City went on strike for several weeks in a significant action related to child labor.
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The United States Congress approves the use of voting machines in federal elections.
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The Open Door Policy with China is declared by Secretary of State John Hay and the U.S. government in an attempt to open international markets and retain the integrity of China as a nation.
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The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
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Carrie Nation continues her Temperance Movement to abolish the consumption of liquor when she begins a campaign, prompted by a dream, to demolish saloons, over two dozen, in Kansas and other midwest states over the next ten years.
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President William H. McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York while shaking hands with fair visitors, following his speech at the event on President's Day the day before. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz is arrested for the crime. On September 14, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as President upon the death of William McKinley from gunshot wounds sustained the week earlier.
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The first movie theatre in the United States opens in Los Angeles, California. It was known as the Electric Theatre.
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Japan is victorious against Czarist Russia.
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Authorizing the President to establish national monuments for the preservation of historic, prehistoric, and scientific interest.
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The United States and Japan reach a Gentleman’s Agreement stating that the United States would neither impose nor enforce restrictions on Japanese immigration and Japan would not allow further emigration to the United States
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Korea is annexed by Japan, and is ruled from 1910-1945.
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