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Settling the West/ Industrialization and Urbanization
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Gold Discovered in the Black Hills
Gold discovered in the Black Hills. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
Ignoring warnings of a massed Sioux army of 2,000-4,000 men, Custer and 250 soldiers attack the forces of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Little Bighorn. George Armstrong Custer and 210 men under his command are killed. -
Telephone Invented
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. -
Great Railroad Strike Begins
A strike erupted across the country as workers reacted to wage cuts and the state of the economy. The strike lasted 45 days and was put down by local and state militias, and federal troops. -
Nez Perce Indians Captured
To avoid a battle that would have resulted in being forced onto a reservation, about 800 Nez Perce fled 1,500 miles. They were caught 30 miles south of the Canadian border. Survivors were sent to Indian Territory in Oklahoma, despite the promise of the U.S. government to allow them to return to their homeland. -
Industrial School at Carlisle Opens
The first students, a group of 84 Lakota children, arrived at the newly established United States Indian Training and Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a boarding school founded by former Indian-fighter Captain Richard Henry Pratt to remove young Indians from their native culture and refashion them as members of mainstream American society. -
Electric Light Bulb Created
Thomas Alva Edison invents the electric light bulb. -
A Century of Dishonor is published.
A Century of Dishonor publication. - Helen Hunt Jackson released her book detailing the plight of American Indians and criticizing the U.S. government's treatment of Indians. -
Supreme Court ruling regarding Native Americans
On November 3, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an Indian is by birth "an alien and a dependent." -
Haymarket Square Riot
It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day. An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they acted to disperse the public meeting. The bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; scores of others were wounded. It led to the downfall of the Knights of Labor. -
American Federation of Labor
American Federation of Labor union is founded. -
Dawes Severalty Act Passed
The stated objective of the Dawes Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society. -
Oklahoma Opened to White Settlement
Oklahoma (formerly Indian Territory) is opened to white settlement. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
A group of soldiers opened fire on a group of Sioux at the Pine Ridge reservation in Wounded Knee Creek killing 153 Indian men, women and children. -
Frontier Closed
A US census determines the frontier to be closed. -
Homestead Strike
The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the Pittsburgh area town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (the AA) and the Carnegie Steel Company. The final result was a major defeat for the union and a setback for efforts to unionize steelworkers. -
The Panic of 1893
The Panic of 1893 was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in 1893. Smilar to the Panic of 1873, it was marked by the collapse of railroad overbuilding and shaky railroad financing, resulting in a series of bank failures.
