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The Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custer's Last Stand, marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The demise of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty. -
Munn v. Illinois: Court rules states may regulate warehouse rates
The Illinois legislature passed a law regulating warehouse storage charges. When the Illinois law was tested in the Supreme Court, the problem before the Court was to find a legal basis for regulating such property as grain elevators and railroads without setting a precedent for the regulation of all private property. -
Compromise of 1877
Hayes becomes president, troops leave South, end of reconstruction -
End of Reconstruction
The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877, during which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determined the legal status of African Americans. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was an immigration law passed in 1882 that prevented Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first immigration law that excluded an entire ethnic group. It also excluded Chinese nationals from eligibility for United States citizenship. -
Interstate Commerce Act
-established the federal government's right to oversee railroad activities
-required railroads to the public their rate schedules and file them with the government -
The Dawes Act of 1887
It was enacted by the 49th United States Congress. It authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Native Americans. -
Hull House
settlement house by Addams to help Euro immigrants -
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
Sherman Antitrust Act tried to prevent the artificial raising of prices by restriction of trade or supply, but many people critiqued it for harming society. -
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
Sherman Antitrust Act tried to prevent the artificial raising of prices by restriction of trade or supply, but many people critiqued it for harming society. -
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
The Sherman Silver Purchase Act was passed in the request of farmers and miners. They requested the government to pass it for their interests. -
The Tariff Act of 1890
It was enacted to protect domestic industries from foreign competition by raising the average duty on imports to almost fifty percent. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
It was part of the Ghost Dance War and the Sioux Wars. It occurred near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The U.S. Cavalry troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota and when the massacre was over, between 250 and 300 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 were wounded. -
Homestead Strike
Carnegie steel uses Pinkertons to put down the strike. -
Pullman Strike
Pullman cut wages but refused to lower rents in the "company town", workers stop working, Cleveland intervenes (strike stopped the mail) -
Plessy v Ferguson
Separate but equal -
Dingley Act
Dingley Act raised tariffs in the U.S. It had been effective for twelve years. It was the longest-lived tariffs and also the highest. -
Teller Amendment
It was enacted by the 55th United States Congress and sighed into law by President William McKinley. According to the clause, the U.S. would help Cuba with its independence and then leave "control of the island to its people." -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1898 was signed by Spain and the United States. It ended the Spanish–American War. It was effective since April 11, 1899. It helped the United States became a world power. -
The Open Door policy
The policy was established to allow for a system of trade in China open to all countries. The Open Door Policy was a principle, but never signed into law.