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Invention of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell is the inventor of the telephone and made his first call on the same day to his assistant at the time. -
The Compromise of 1877
This was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among U.S. Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and ending the Reconstruction Era. -
Invention of the Light Bulb
Thomas Edison displays his lights and generators to reporters and investors. He also got it patented so no one else could steal his idea. -
James A. Garfield became President of the U.S
James A. Garfield was a brigadier general during the Civil War, and he won the Presidential election of 1880.Garfield was shot by an assassin four months into his presidency and died two months later. He is the only sitting member of the United States House of Representatives to be elected to the presidency. -
Grover Cleveland becomes president
Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. Cleveland is the only president in American history to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office. -
The Dawes Act of 1887
This allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands. Only the Native Americans who accepted the division of tribal lands were allowed to become US citizens. -
Sherman Anti Trust Act
was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. The trusts came to dominate a number of major industries, destroying competition. -
Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States that lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
This was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
The Gold Standard Act
The Gold Standard Act of the United States was passed in 1900 and established gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money, stopping bimetallism. It was signed by President William McKinley.