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Peak Power of Tammany Hall Ring
Tammany Hall was a New York City political organization that endured for nearly two centuries. Formed in 1789 in opposition to the Federalist Party, its leadership often mirrored that of the local Democratic Party’s executive committee. -
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Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America, the leader who successfully prosecuted the Civil War to preserve the nation. He played in key role in passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which ended slavery in America. -
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Presidency of Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. ... A Democrat who ran with Lincoln on the National Union ticket, Johnson came to office as the Civil War concluded. -
Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The declaration reads, 'all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. -
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Reconstruction
The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period introduced a new set of significant challenges. -
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Public Education enacted through all states
Congress makes it illegal for Native Americans to be taught in their native languages. Native children as young as four years old are taken from their parents and sent to Bureau of Indian Affairs off-reservation boarding schools, whose goal, as one BIA official put it, is to "kill the Indian to save the man." -
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Civil War
The Civil War, also known as “The War Between the States,” was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 and formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery. -
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Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses Grant commanded the victorious Union army during the American Civil War and served as the 18th U.S. president from 1869 to 1877. During the Civil War, Grant, an aggressive and determined leader, was given command of all the U.S. armies. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The battle of Little Bighorn occurred in 1876 and is commonly referred to as “Custer's Last Stand”. The battle took place between the U.S. Cavalry and northern tribe Indians. Despite having won this battle, the Indians were not victorious. -
Great Strike of 1877
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States after the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year. -
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Jim Crow Era
n the United States from about 1877, which marked the end of the formal Reconstruction period, to the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s, laws existed to enforce racial segregation in the South. These laws were called Jim Crow laws. -
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Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes
As the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881), Rutherford B. Hayes oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War. -
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Presidency of James Garfield
ames Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his assassination later that year. He is the only sitting House member to be elected president. -
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Presidency of Chester A. Author
Chester Arthur, the 21st U.S. president, took office after the death of President James Garfield. As president from 1881 to 1885, Arthur advocated for civil service reform. A Vermont native, he became active in Republican politics in the 1850s as a New York City lawyer. -
Chinese Exclusion Act begins
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Joseph Pulitzer builds the New York newspaper
The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City. -
Predilection Civil Service Act passed
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403) is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Haymarket Affair
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. ... An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they acted to disperse the public meeting. -
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Presidency of Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only President in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office. -
Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike, also known as the Homestead Steel Strike, Pinkerton Rebellion, or Homestead Massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892. -
William Randolph Heart begins buying up newspapers
William Randolph Hearst Sr. was an American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper chain -
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Presidency of William McKinley
William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States from March 4, 1897 until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term.