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Battle of Little Bighorn
General Custer's army lost to the Sioux Indians, which led to the US government aggressively crushing the Indian rebellions to bring peace in the West. -
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The strike's failure led people to realize they need to unionize, that started the concept of unions, which has led to the unions today. -
Immigration Act
The Immigration Act was passed by congress which denied admission to people who were not able to support themselves and those, such as paupers, people with mental illnesses, or convicted criminals, who might otherwise threaten the security of the nation. -
The Chicago Haymarket Affair
Immigrants were accused of targeting and killing police officers in a bomb blast. This caused Americans to have greater fear of immigrants, and led to laws being passed to slow down the influx of immigrants. -
The Dawes Act of 1877
The act authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by sectioning them into individual plots. It also was to assimilate Native American Indians into mainstream US culture by destroying their culture and traditions. -
Motion Pictures
Thomas Edison patented the first idea of video, which he called motion pictures. His idea was ''to develop 'an instrument which does for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear.”' -
"The Gospel of Wealth"
"The Gospel of Wealth" was written by Andrew Carnegie that claimed that the rich are morally responsible to give to charity. This, he says is "the true antidote for the temporary unequal distribution of wealth." -
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Ida B. Wells, an African America woman, wrote a book that document the lynch culture in the south after three of her friends were hanged that year in Memphis, Tennessee. -
The Edison Vitascope
The invention of motion pictures, through Edison's innovation of rolling film, led to this invention. The Vitascope could project motion pictures, which created a surge of more people attending theaters. -
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Spanish-American War
After the US decided to side with Cuba, this caused conflict between the US and Spain. The war ended the same year, by the Treaty of Paris, and subsequently the US became a major world power.