1886-1891
- The Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago kills seven police officers and wounds sixty. May 4, 1886.
- The Interstate Commerce Act requires railroads to charge reasonable rates and forbids them from from offering rate reductions to preferred customers. Feb. 4, 1887
- President Benjamin Harrison opens a portion of Oklahoma to white settlement. April 22, 1889.
- Wounded Knee Massacre. Dec. 29, 1890
1881-1885
- Booker T. Washington opens Tuskegee Institute. July 4, 1881.
- Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese Chinese immigration for ten years. May 6, 1882
- Railroads in the United States and Canada adopt a system of standard time. Nov. 18,1883
- Construction begins in Chicago on the first building with a steel skeleton, making birth of the skyscraper. May 1, 1884.
1868-1870
- Workers employed by the government are granted an 8-hour workday. June 25 1868
- A golden spike is driven into a railroad tie at Promontory Point, Utah, completing the transcontinental railroad. May 10 1869
- The 15th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote without any discrimination. March 30 1870
1871-1875
1876-1880
- Congress declares that Indian tribes will no longer be treated as independent nations. March 3 1871
- The Great Chicago Fire claims 250 lives and destroys 17,500 buildings. October 8, 1871
- The Financial Panic of 1873 begins. 5,183 business fail. Sept. 18, 1873
- 4-years-old Charley Brewster Ross is the country's first kidnapping for ransom. The child was never found. March 11, 1874.
- 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. Feb. 14,1876
- Marking the official end to Reconstruction, President Hayes begins to withdraw federal troops from the South. April 10,1877
- The Senate defeats a woman's suffrage amendment 34-16. Jan. 10, 1878
- Thomas Edison invents the light bulb. Oct. 21, 1879
Gilded Age Timeline
1892-1896
- Ellis Island was opened to screen immigrants. Twenty million immigrants passed through it before it was closed in 1954. Jan 1, 1892
- Pro-American interests depose Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. Jan. 17, 1893
- Coxey's Army. Jacob Coxey leads a march on Washington by the unemployed. May 1, 1894
- The Supreme Court strikes down an income tax. May 20, 1895
- Plessy v. Ferguson. May 18, 1896
1897-1901
Timia Hardy
February 13th, 2015
1st period
- The Supreme Court rules that a child born of Chinese parents in the United States is an American citizen and cannot be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act. May 28, 1898.
- Delegates from the US and 25 other nations meet at The Hague to discuss important issues about immigration. May 18-July 29 1899.
- McKinley wins a second term as president. Theodore Roosevelt is vice president. 1990
- President McKinley is shot by Anarchist Leon Czolgosz as he attends a reception in Buffalo. He dies a week later of his wounds, and Theodore Roosevelt is president. 1901
Resources
- "Digital History." Digital History. Web. 15 Feb. 2015. <http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=9&smtID=4>.
- "Timeline 1845-1916." Timeline 1845-1916. Web. 15 Feb. 2015. <http://www.pinzler.com/ushistory/timeline7.html>.