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Years after its conception in 1856, Andrew Carnegie utilized the Bessemer Process to help boost steel production.
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Francis Willard creates the Women's Christian Temperance Union to rally for support regarding a ban on alcohol
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Alexander Graham Bell creates the telephone and makes the 1st ever call on this date
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After Baltimore and Ohio cut wages a 3rd time, people began protesting, preventing trains from rolling until the cut was lifted.
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The Tuskegee Institute is founded by Booker T. Washington to help train black teachers.
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In 1882 because of laws against monopolies, Standard Oil becomes a trust officially
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This act was signed into law by Chester A. Arthur, prohibiting Chinese workers from immigrating into the U.S
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This act was signed into law by Chester A. Arthur to establish a merit based system of reward in pertinence to federal jobs
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Railroads began to set up a time zone system with four different zones for increased efficiency.
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After being purchased in 1867, Alaska becomes an official territory in 1884
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This 2nd act of the Chinese Exclusion Act tightened the conditions of its predecessor act. This was signed by Chester A. Arthur.
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The U.S Congress condemned the use of barbed wire around government owned areas and grounds
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Haymarket Square in Chicago was full of protesters doing a peaceful labor rally that quickly went violent as a bomb went off, killing 7 policemen.
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Signed by Grover Cleveland, the Dawes Allotment Act was an act that forced Native Americans to act as singular people, not as a tribe of people.
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The ICA is signed by Grover Cleveland that was created to regulate the railroad business, especially its practices that seemed monopolistic.
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Congress approves the act, thus officially banning trusts and strengthens the governments regulation on commerce.
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The platform created by a coalition of the Southern Farmer's Alliance, Colored Farmer's Alliance, and the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association, detailing specific demands that they wanted Congress to do for a better economy
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The massacre of over 200 captured Sioux indians in Wounded Knee, South Dakota caused by U.S Cavalry
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This law established a presidential right to establish forest reserves apart from the public domain
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The panic of 1893 ensues, causing closure of banks, a crash in the New York Stock Exchange, and an economic depression that lingers until 1897
