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Plain Indian Wars Begin
The American Indian Wars, or Indian Wars is the collective name for the various armed conflicts fought by European governments and colonists, and later the United States government and American settlers, against the native peoples of North America. -
Passing of the 13th Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
Passing of the 14th Amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. -
Plessy v. Ferguson Ruling By the Supreme Court
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
Passing of the 15TH Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Haymarket Square Riot
A labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. -
Samuel Gompers Created the American Federation of Labor
An English-born, American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. -
Passing of Jim Crow Laws in the South
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Federal Indian Policy of Assimilation
Allotment and assimilation era (1887–1943) In 1887, the United States Congress passed the General Allotment Act, which is considered one of the earliest attempts aimed toward assimilation of Native tribes. -
Ida B. Wells Began Her Anti-lynching Campaign
Ida Bell Wells (July 16, 1862 to March 25, 1931), better known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. -
Progressive Era Begins
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
A landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890 under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. -
Homestead Strike
The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead Steel strike, Pinkerton rebellion, or Homestead massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle . -
Eugene V. Debs Founded the American Railway Union
The American Railway Union (A.R.U.) was founded on June 20, 1893 in Chicago, Illinois. Led by Eugene V. Debs, the A.R.U. very quickly became the nation's largest organized union. -
Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law. -
Booker T. Washington Delivered his "Atlanta Compromise" Speech
Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech. On September 18, 1895, African-American spokesman and leader Booker T. Washington spoke before a predominantly white audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. -
Creation of the Knights of Labor Union
Knights of Labor, officially Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. -
Beginning of Muckraking
The action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way. -
W. E. B. DuBois Helped Establish the NAACP
W.E.B. Dubois. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. -
Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal
The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program. -
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom
The New Freedom was Woodrow Wilson's campaign platform in the 1912 presidential election in which he called for limited government, and is also used to refer to the progressive programs enacted by Wilson during his first term as president from 1913 to 1916 while the Democrats controlled Congress. -
Passing of the 17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, was a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act sought to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency. -
Great Migration Begins
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. -
Women Gained the Right to Vote in the 19th Amendment
Granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
