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Great Sioux war
The Great Sioux War also known as the Black Hills War. This war was made up of many battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877. In union of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States. -
Buffalo Hunters War
This war was located in Texas and Oklahoma. This war was apart of the American Indian wars. This war occurred because of killing of the species. The U.S. Army policy in killing off the buffalo herds. It was a denied warring as tribes food source. The national depression of 1873 resulted in a relentless extermination of animals. -
Colombian Civil War of 1876
This war started in 1876 and then ended in 1877. This war could also be called war of schools. This was a civil war in the United States. This war was rooted from another conflict. -
Alexander Graham Bell's Big Box Telephone
Telegraph lines could carry only one coded message per wire at a time and that was with distance and everything. Which became a burden as the volume of communication increased. To overcome this problem, Alexander Bell used his knowledge of acoustics an he came up with some outstanding method of sending multiple tonal messages over a wire. This led to the telephone, and a communication revolution that transformed business and daily life for everyone. -
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History of 1876-1900
This is a timeline of the history in 1876-1900. There are many dates that are not included, but theses are a few dates that I researched. -
Ordering Native Americans
Original date issued by the United States government ordering all Native Americans onto a system of reservations throughout the western lands of the United States. Although the date would be extended by President Grant, this issue would lead to the Great Sioux War of 1876. -
The Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition
The Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, a world's fair meant to celebrate the 100th birthday of the United States opens on 285 acres in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. It shows many amazing inventions from that time and proved to the 34 nations and 20 colonies who exhibited that not only was the United States of America is an equal with European nations in manufactured goods, but had surpassed them in innovation. -
The Battle of Little Big Horn
The Battle of Little Big Horn happened when Lt. Colonel George Custer and his 7th U.S. Cavalry started to engage into the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians above the Little Big Horn River. All two-hundred and sixty-four members of the 7th Cavalry and Custer perish all gather and they fight in the battle, the most complete rout in American military history. -
Legislation approved
Legislation is approved for the federal government to complete the privately sponsored, until that time, Washington Monument with an appropriation of $2 million. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
Hayes was president from 1877 to 1881. This was one of the most fiercely and controversial election in America History. Rutherford brought so many things to White House like his dignity, and honesty. He fought in the Civil War. He entered congress. He was ran for House of Representatives. -
Nez Perz War
The Nez Perce War was an armed conflict that had several bands of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans and their allies, a small band of a tribe and they fought against the United States Army. -
Congressional leaders gather
Congressional leaders from both houses of Congress all come together on the presidential election dispute, reaching the Compromise of 1877. They would be introduced one day later in a private ceremony at the White House. -
Bannock War
The Bannock War in 1878 and went on from June to August 1878. The war was an armed conflict between the United States military, Bannock and Paiute warriors in Idaho and Northeastern Oregon. -
Cheyenne War
The Northern Cheyenne Exodus, also known as Dull Knife's Raid, the Cheyenne War, or the Cheyenne Campaign, was an attempt of the Northern Cheyenne to return to the North. They were place on the Southern Cheyenne. After that was reservation in the Indian Territory, and the United States Army operations to stop them. -
Tinfoil Phonograph
Thomas Edison invented the Tinfoil Phonograph. Patients needed help and Thomas and his team full of scientists, engineers, draftsmen, and laborers developed or improved over 1,000 patients, from huge electric generators to this early phonograph. Thomas Edison helped usher in an age of organized research in support of commerce and industry that reshaped American life. Vowing to turn out inventions on a regular basis. -
The Lincoln County War
The Lincoln County War begins in New Mexico between two groups of wealthy businessmen fought, the Lincoln County general store, and the ranchers. Fought alongside the ranchers in a dispute over seizure of horses as a payment of an outstanding debt. -
Sheepeater Indian War
The Sheepeater Indian War of 1879 was the last Indian war fought in the Pacific Northwest portion of the United States. This war primarily place in central Idaho. The United States resulted in victory -
Victorio's War
Victorio's War was an armed conflict between the Apache followers of Chief Victorio, the United States, and Mexico beginning in September 1879. The location of this war was in the Southwest of the United States. -
White River War
The White River War was a war that had conflicts that began when the Utes attacked an Indian agency and resulted in killing the Indian agent Nathan Meeker and his ten male employees, and taking women and children as hostages. The United States was also involved in this war and resulted in the United States victory. -
signs a bill
President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill that would allow female attorneys to argue in Supreme Court cases. -
Edison Electric Company
The Edison Electric Company begins operation. -
The construction of the Panama Canal
The construction of the Panama Canal was under French auspices. It was eventually gonna fail on the sea level canal in 1893, and would be bought out by the United States twenty-four years later under President Theodore Roosevelt. -
The Yorktown Column
The Yorktown Column was now introduced to being part of Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia. Which is commissioned by the United States Congress. Its construction would commemorate the victory of American forces that were in the Revolutionary War. -
James A. Garfield
Garfield attacked political corruption and won back for the presidency and also a good amount of prestige it had lost during the Reconstruction period. Garfield was elected to be a senate as a Republican. He then was elected to congress. He strengthened federal authority over the New York Customs House. A few details about him. -
Chester A. Arthur
Arthur was president from 1881 to 1885. Arthur always was with a clean-shaven chin and side-whiskers, Arthur looked like a president. Arthur would hold himself above the factions within the Republican Party. He died with a disease of a fatal kidney. Arthur vetoed the first bill of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Then he signed iteration into law. -
Winchester Rifle
Americans viewed the nation’s westward expansion as a symbol of its providence as a land of wealth was progressing. But Indian tribes resisted the gradually advanced of settlers in their territories, setting off decades of violence. The federal government gradually pushed the tribes to more isolated areas, offering U.S. citizenship, but few opportunities. An needed a way to hunt and protect. -
Oriental Telephone Company
Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. -
The Standard Oil Company
The Standard Oil Company they grew a trust of John D. Rockefeller which begun when Rockefeller places his oil holdings inside it. -
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is passed by Congress. By doing that began establishing the United States Civil Service agencies and overhauling the federal civil service. -
The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions
The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in the U.S.A. call for an eight-hour workday. -
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland was president from 1885-1889 and then president again from 1893-1897. Cleveland was the first ever Democrat president. He was also the first president to leave the White House and come back for a second term. Cleveland came across as a honest man. He got the nickname "the hangman of Buffalo" because he personally hung two criminals while also serving as a sheriff. He vetoed many private pension bills to Civil War veterans. -
The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty arrives for the first time in New York harbor. -
The Haymarket riot and bombing occurs in Chicago
The Haymarket riot and bombing occurs in Chicago, Illinois, three days after the start of a general strike in the United States that pushed for an eight hour workday. The additional labor battles for that worker right favored by unions followed the act later on. Later on the American Federation of Labor was formed by twenty-five craft unions. -
Pear Harbor
Pearl Harbor naval base is leased by the United States Navy. Also there was an approval of the U.S. Senate. -
The prototype for the commercial phonograph
The prototype for the commercial phonograph is completed by Thomas A. Edison and staff at his laboratory. October 8, 1888, the work begins on the first motion picture camera. -
Benjamin Harris
Benjamin Harris was president from 1889 to 1893. He was nominated president on the eighth ballot at the 1888 Republican Convention. Harrison helped shape a vigorous foreign policy. He negotiated a series of trade agreements. He believed it would generate economic growth and foster diplomatic relations. Substantial appropriation bills were signed also. He also designed two bills that were designed during the Civil War to protect African Americans. -
The deadliest flood
The deadliest flood in American history occurs in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. This flood cause 2,200 people perish from the water of the South Fork Dam after heavy rains cause its destruction. -
The Battle of Wounded Knee
The Battle of Wounded Knee was located inSouth Dakota. The battle occurred in the last major battle between United States troops and Indians. Hundreds of Indian men, women, and children are slain, along with twenty-nine soldiers. -
Garza Revolution
The Garza Revolution was an armed conflict fought between 1891 and 1893 in the Mexican state of Coahuila and the American state of Texas. It began when the revolutionary Catarino Garza threw a campaign into Mexico from Texas. When he did that it started an uprising against the dictator Porfirio Diaz. Then it cause a conflict between the two and they needed to settle it. -
Incandescent Lamp
Made by Edison General Electric Company. One of the most dramatic improvements occurred in artificial lighting. Edison’s development of an electric lamp that did not rely on open flames made lighting more practical for factories, offices, and homes, and transformed city life because it was becoming a burden and unsafe they needed something more an that's what Edison gave. -
The first recital of the Pledge of Allegiance
The first recital of the Pledge of Allegiance in United States public schools which is done to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus Day. -
The Chicago World Columbian Exposition
The Chicago World Columbian Exposition in the time 1893. They held this on 686 acres and known as the White City, and it opens up to the public. The world's fair hosted fifty nations and twenty-six colonies. Known today as the architectural wonder that saw replication in many styles of white buildings throughout the United States and in many public buildings for years to come. As well as many other topics. -
The New York Stock Exchange collapses
The New York Stock Exchange collapses. Which started the financial panic of 1893. It would lead to a four year period of depression. -
kinetoscope motion picture
The first public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope motion picture is held. Edison invented the process seven years earlier. -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, was an ex-slave who rose to prominence in national politics as a civil rights advocate and abolitionist during Civil War. -
automobile
The first United States patent for the automobile, #549160, was given to George B. Selden for his two stroke automobile engine. -
Gold discovered
Gold is discovered by Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie near Dawson, Canada, setting up the Klondike Gold Rush. Because of what they were doing it would cause a boom in travel and gold fever from Seattle to prospector sites surrounding Skagway, Alaska. -
William McKinley
William McKinley was president from 1897 to 1901. At the Republican convention of 1896 he was elected. McKinley started young he was in the House of Representatives at the age of 34 and from then on he started his adventure to becoming the president. He led the nation to victory as president in the Spanish American War. -
Oil discovered
Oil is discovered in Indian territory for the first time on land. It was leased from the Osage tribe, leading to rapid population growth near Bartlesville, Oklahoma. -
Spanish-American Wars
The Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba. This aftermath then started leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. The American victory Treaty of Paris of 1898 Founding of the First Philippine Republic and beginning of the Philippine–American War. -
Philippine American War
The Philippine–American War lasted from February 4, 1899, to July 2, 1902 was an armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic and the United States. This war resulted in American victory, American occupation of the Philippines. The First Philippine Republic was in dissolution. -
Silver Presentation Cup
Although American women fought for black suffrage, they were unable to vote in federal elections themselves until 1920. As suffragists moved out of the parlor and into the streets, they were challenged by the notion that a woman’s place was solely in the home.There were so many woman who were so passionate about equal rights and woman suffrage and being able to vote. -
Stock Ticker
This was invented by the west union. The U.S. economy grew rapidly after the Civil War, fueled by an astounding rise in wealth, wages, production,ect. The volume of stocks traded grew with corporations’ and needed for investment capital and the development of new technologies. The 1867 invention of the stock ticker, transmitting up-to-the-minute would share prices over telegraph lines, modernized the stock exchange.