1876-1900

By Josh Allen

  • Nez Perce War

  • The Great Railway Strike

  • Period: to

    Drought severly damages farms and livestock in the west

  • James Garfield shot and killed

  • Chinese Exclusion Act passed

  • Standard Oil Trusts began

  • Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act passed

  • Cleveland elected President

  • Haymarket Square riot

  • American Federation of Labor founded

  • Interstate Commerce Act passed

  • Dawes Act passed

  • Northern Pacific Railroad completed

  • Hull House opened

  • Jacob Riis published "How the Other Half Lives"

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed

  • The Battle at Wounded Knee

  • Hawaii Anexed

  • J. P. Morgan forms General Electric

  • Homestead Steel Strike

  • Cleveland reelected

  • Stock Market Crash

  • Pullman Strike

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • William McKinley elected President

  • Spanish American War

  • Open Door Policy passed