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Rutherford Birchard Hayes was Elected President
https://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/disputed-election-of-1876/
"Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden of New York had one of the most hostile, controversial campaigns in American history. Tilden won the popular vote and led in the electoral college, but 19 votes from three Republican-controlled states remained disputed. Allegations of widespread voter fraud forced Congress to set up a special electoral commission to determine the winner." -
The End of Reconstruction
http://umich.edu/~lawrace/votetour4.htm
"The formal end to Reconstruction was brought about in the disputed 1876 Presidential election. The Democratic candidate, Tilden, won the popular vote, but neither candidate initially had a majority of electoral votes due to disputes over returns in Florida, Louisiana, and S. Carolina--the only states in which federal troops were still stationed in 1876." -
The Great Railroad Strike
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3189
"The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the country's first major rail strike and witnessed the first general strike in the nation's history. The strikes and the violence it spawned briefly paralyzed the country's commerce and led governors in ten states to mobilize 60,000 militia members to reopen rail traffic. The strike would be broken within a few weeks, but it helped set the stage for later violence in the 1880s and 1890s." -
Chinese Exclusion Act
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=47
"The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. The 1882 exclusion act also placed new requirements on Chinese who had already entered the country. If they left the United States, they had to obtain certifications to re-enter. Congress, moreover, refused State and Federal courts the right to grant citizenship to Chinese resident aliens, although these courts could still deport them." -
Interstate Commerce Act
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=49
"Approved on February 4, 1887, the Interstate Commerce Act created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry. With this act, the railroads became the first industry subject to Federal regulation. Congress passed the law largely in response to public demand that railroad operations be regulated." -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=51
"The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. It was named for Senator John Sherman of Ohio, who was a chairman of the Senate finance committee. The Sherman Antitrust Act was based on the constitutional power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices." -
Wounded Knee Massacre
http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.war.056
"In southwestern South Dakota, a tangle of events resulted in the deaths of more than 250, and possibly 300, Native Americans. These people were guilty of no crime and were not engaged in combat. Substantial numbers were women and children. Most of the victims were members of the Miniconjou band of the Lakota Sioux who had been intercepted by military forces after they fled their reservation in South Dakota for refuge in the Badlands." -
Populist Party Founded
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4789
"During the last three decades of the nineteenth century, American farmers faced a variety of economic problems. Frustrated farmers formed organizations to address such problems and ultimately turned to independent or third-party politics. These efforts coalesced in the 1890s with the founding of the People’s (or Populist) Party, which drew most of its support in the West and the South." -
Inventions of Basketball
https://www.gardenlines.co.uk/articles/play-equipment/basketball-brief-history
"Basketball was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian of Scottish descent at Springfield College Massachusetts. The college was the International YMCA Training School and the game was invented to provide an indoor activity for trainee YMCA leaders. When the game was first played, peach baskets were nailed up at each end of the gymnasium as “goals”, hence the origin of the name “basketball”. -
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Spanish-American War
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/spanish-american-war
"The Spanish-American War ended Spain’s colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power. U.S. victory in the war produced a peace treaty that compelled the Spanish to relinquish claims on Cuba and to cede sovereignty over Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the United States." The United States also annexed Hawaii during the conflict.
