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The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890.
1890- The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890. It was a landmark federal ruling in the history of United States competition law. It prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anti-competitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts. It has since, more broadly, been used to oppose the combination of entities that could potentially harm competition, such as monopolies or cartels. -
1890- Yosemite National Park was created.
1890- Yosemite National Park was created. It is a United States National Park spanning from eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in the central eastern portion of the U.S. state of California. The park, which is managed by the National Park Service, covers an area of 747,956 acres and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain. Over 3.7 million people visit Yosemite each year. -
1890- How the Other Half Lives
1890- How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York was published in 1890. It was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle classes. -
1890- The National American Woman Suffrage Association was formed.
1890- The National American Woman Suffrage Association was formed. NAWSA was an American women's rights organization formed by a unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The NAWSA continued the work of both of the original organizations by becoming the leader of hundreds of smaller local and state groups. The NAWSA was the largest and most important suffrage organization in the United States. -
1891- Basketball is invented.
1891- Basketball is invented. James Naismith was a Canadian American sports coach and innovator. He wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of both the National Invitation Tournament and the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. -
1891- The Baltimore crisis
1891- The Baltimore crisis was a diplomatic incident that took place between Chile and the United States as result of the growing American influence in Pacific Coast region of Latin America in the 1890s. It remains a noted event because it marked a dramatic shift in United States. It was triggered by the stabbing of two United States Navy sailors from the USS Baltimore in front of the "True Blue Saloon" in Valparaíso on October 16, 1891. -
The panic of 1893
1893- The panic of 1893 was a serious economic depression in the Unite. Similar to the panic of 1873, it was marked by the overproduction and risky financing of railroads, resulting in a series of bank failures. The panic of 1893 was the worst economic depression the United States had ever experienced at the time. -
1896- Plessy v. Ferguson
1896- Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark case United States, it was a Supreme Court decision based on the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities. The court case decided against Plessy under the doctrine of "separate but equal". This ruling remained standard doctrine in U.S. law until its revocation in 1954 Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education. -
1896- The Klondike Gold Rush
1896- The Klondike Gold Rush was an influx of an estimated 100,000 prospectors into the Klondike region in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered in this region by local miners on August 16, 1896. When news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered the migration of the miners. Only some became wealthy, but the majority left in debt. The Klondike Gold Rush ended in 1899 after gold was discovered in Nome, Alaska. -
1897- William McKinley was elected.
1897- William McKinley was elected. He had lived from January 29, 1843 to September 14, 1901 and he was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination in September 1901. McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish–American War, and maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of inflationary proposals.