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Great Sioux War of 1876
Great Sioux War is also known as the Black Hills War, which was a series of battles and negotiations that occurred in an alliance between the Lakota Sioux and the Northern Cheyenne against the United States. The cause of the war was the desire of the US Government to obtain the Black Hills which settlers had begun encroaching on. -
United States v. Cruikshank
An important Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Bill of Rights did not apply to private actors or to state governments despite the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
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Battle of Little Big Horn
The Battle of Little Bighorn was an armed engagement between the combined forces of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes against the 7th Calvalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle resulted in the loss of the U.S. forces and was a significant action during the Great Sioux War of 1876. -
Presidential Election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes won the Presidential election with 185 electoral votes over Samuel J. Tilden. -
Thomas Edison invented the Phonograph
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph which was a device for the mechanical and analog recording and reproduction of sound. -
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Nez Perce War
An armed conflict that pitted several bands of the Nex Perce tribe of Native Americans and their allies, a small band of Palouse tribe against the United States Army. The battles stemmed from the refusal to give up their ancestral lands in the Pacific Northwest and move to an Indian reservation in Idaho. -
Munn v. Illinois
A case developed in a response to pressure from the National Grange, by setting maximum rates that private companies could charge for the storage and transport of agricultural products. Munn and Scott firm was found guilty of violating the law but appealed the conviction on the grounds that the law was an unconstitutional deprivation of property without due process of law that violated the Fourteenth Amendment. And the Illinois State Supreme Court both ruled in favor of the state. -
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Great Railroad Strike
The strike was initiated after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year. The strike lasted for about 69 days after it was put down by unofficial militias, the National Guard, and federal troops. -
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Electric Light developed by Thomas Edison
Edison built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delayed the filament from melting. -
Bland - Allison Act
An act of the United States Congress required the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars. Originally vetoed by Rutherford B. Hayes, congress overrode Hayes's veto to enact the law. -
Edison opens Pearls Street Station
Edison opened up Pearls Street Sation which provided electricity to his first customers in lower Manhattan. -
Jamestown Flood
Occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam. After the dam ruptured there were several days of extremely heavy rainfall, which released a lot of water killing roughly 2,209 people and accounting for $17 million of damage. -
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Spanish-American War
A period of armed conflict between Spain and the United States. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosions of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba leading to the U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
Wilmington Massacre of 1898
The Wilmington Massacre was a riot and insurrection carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina on Thursday, November 10, 1898. -
Philippine-American War
Armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic and the U.S. The conflict began in 1898 when the U.S., rather than acknowledging the Philippines' declaration of independence, annexed the Philipines under the Treaty of Paris.