1876-1900

  • Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone and is granted a US patent
  • Rutherford B. Hayes

    Rutherford B. Hayes becomes the 19th president of the United States after the Compromise of 1877 because he would remove troops from South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida.
  • Light Bulb

    Thomas Edison is credited for inventing the Light Bulb.
  • James A. Garfield

    James A. Garfield becomes the 20th president of the United States.
  • Chester A. Arthur

    Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st president of the United States following Garfield's assassination.
  • Grover Cleveland

    Grover Cleveland becomes the 22nd president of the United States.
  • The Dawes Act

    The Act allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands and separate them into individual lots.
  • Benjamin Harrison

    Benjamin Harrison becomes the 23rd president of the United States
  • Grover Cleveland

    Grover Cleveland becomes president once again, serving for another 4 years.
  • William McKinley

    William McKinley becomes the 25th president of the United States.