This document summarizes key events and developments in the United States between 1880-1899. It notes the industrialization and urbanization period from 1880-1915, as well as the settlement house movement to help immigrants. The Progressive Era from 1890-1920 is also mentioned as a time of social reforms. Specific events covered include the establishment of national parks like Yosemite and Mt. Rainier, inventions like the light bulb and automobile, women's suffrage movements, wars like the Spanish-American War, and economic downturns like the Panic of 1893.

1. OVERARCHING THEMES OF OUR TIME PERIODIndustrialization and urbanization (1880’s-1915)Settlement houses/movement for a burgeoning immigrant population; first house est. by Stanton Coit in 1886; 400 by 1910 (Stubblefield & Keane, P. 172). Jane Addams involved in settlement housesSettlement workers helped lead the efforts to form the NAACP, etc. Progressive Era (1890’s-1920’s) in which prohibition, women’s suffrage, and social activism and reforms were the dominant themes.

2. America 1880 - 1886By Matt Jost

3. Presidents 1880 - 1881 James A. Garfield ElectedAfter his assignation in 1881 he was succeeded by Chester Arthur

4. President 1884Grover Cleveland Wins ElectionMarries First Lady in 1886 in White House

5. 1880 The French began work on the Panama CanalFailed after 13 yearsThomas Edison received a patent for the LIGHT BULB

6. 1881Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form Oriental Telephone CompanyChief Sitting Bull lead last stand against U.S. TroopsPresident Garfield Shot by lawyer Charles J. GuiteauDies two months later

7. 1882Western Outlaw Jesse James is shot by Robert FordA member of his band $5,000 rewardPractice of polygamy is outlawed by legislation in U.S.

8. 1883Brooklyn Bridge is opened Took 14 years to construct Five standard times zones establishedHelped end confusion for railroad companies in U.S. and Canada

9. 1884Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions call for 8-hour work dayFirst post season baseball game heldWashington Monument finished after 37 years of construction

10. 1885Washington Monument dedicated to President Chester A. ArthurStatue of Liberty arrived in New York harborRock Springs, Wyoming mining incidentWhite miners kill 28 Chinese coworkersForces several hundred to leave area

11. 1886Dr. John Pemberton invents coca-colaStatue of Liberty is Dedicated to President Grover ClevelandUniversity of Wyoming was established

12. America 1887-1892Darlene Lowndes

13. US PRESIDENThttp://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/grovercleveland

14. 1887The Dawes General Allotment Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress regarding the distribution of land to Native Americans in Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). It was signed into law February 8, 1887. Named after its sponsor, U.S. SenatorHenry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, the act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act. The act remained in effect until 1934. The act provided for the division of tribally held lands into individually-owned parcels and opening "surplus" lands to settlement by non-Indians and development by railroadshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Act

15. UC BERKELEY 1887 • Earthquake scienceEarth Sciences professors set up the Western Hemisphere's first string of seismographic stations, to systematically record seismic activity and publish these earthquake recordshttp://berkeley.edu/about/hist/timeline.shtml

16. 1887State Normal College for Colored StudentsFLORIDA A & M Land Grant School 1891-grant colleges or land grant institutions) are institutions of higher education in the United States designated by each state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. The Morrill Acts funded educational institutions by granting federally controlled land to the states for the states to develop or sell to raise funds to establish and endow "land grant" colleges. The mission of these institutions as set forth in the 1862 Act is to focus on the teaching of agriculture, science and engineering as a response to the industrial revolution and changing social class rather than higher education's historic core of classical studies.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grant_college

17. National Geographic Society Founded1888http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

18. Oklahoma Land Rush1889http://library of congresshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Run_of_1889

19. PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON1889http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/benjaminharrison

20. NEW UNITED STATES 1889North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington

21. Johnstown FloodJohnstown, PA June 1889Main Street, Looking west.The New York TimesPhoto Archine.1889http://newyorktimes

22. HULL HOUSEFOUNDED 1889 BY JANE ADDAMSJane Addams Hull-House Museumhttp://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/_museum/visitors.html

23. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK1890http://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm

24. NEW UNITED STATES 1890IDAHO & WYOMING

25. WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE1890Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library

26. NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION FOUNDED50th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage - 6c (Suffragettes, 1920, and Woman operating Voting Machine) 189050th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage - (Suffragettes, 1920, and Woman operating Voting Machine) http://www.usapostagestamps.com/1970/Women_Suffrage_6c.htm

27. GENERAL ELECTRIC FOUNDED1892This Room is Equipped WithEDISON ELECTRIC LIGHTDo not attempt to light withMatch. Simply turn key on wall by the doorThe use of electric for lighting is in no way harmfulTo health, nor does it effect the soundness of sleephttp://www.ge.com/innovation/timeline/index.html

28. SIERRA CLUB1892John Muir (1838-1914) was America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist, and founder of the Sierra Club. This website, known as the "John Muir Exhibit" features his life and contributions. http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/

29. BALTIMORE CRISIS1891The Baltimore Crisis was a diplomatic incident that took place between Chile and the United States of America as the result of growing US influence in the South Coast of the Pacific in the 1890s. It remains a nodal event because it marked a dramatic shift in United States-Chile relations. It was triggered by the stabbing of two US sailors in the "True Blue Saloon" in Valparaíso on 16. October 1891.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Crisis

30. Homestead Strike1892It was one of the most serious disputes in US labor history. The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the Pittsburgh-area town of Homestead, Pennsylvania. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA) was an American labor union formed in 1876. It was a craft union representing skilled iron and steel workers.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike

31. EXPANSION OF SECOND MORRILL ACT 1890Historically black schools as land grant collegesThis act required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Colleges_Act

32. America 1893 - 1899By Dan McCoy

33. 1893Thomas Edison receives the first patent for the first motion pictureGrover Cleveland reelected president (first president to serve two non-consecutive terms)Panic of 1893 beginsLargest economic depression to effect the U.S. until the Great DepressionCaused by the overzealous lending/investments in railroads; numerous bank failures occur.

34. 1893 Continued…Worlds Fair in Chicago (May-Oct.), 27 million attend400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the new worldBecomes place for lectures and scholarly meetings, and a place for women to express discontent on issues of equality (Stubblefield & Keane, P. 145)

35. 1894-1895Booker T. Washington Delivers the Atlanta Compromise speechGeorge Selden granted first patent for the Automobile (horseless carriage)(Father, Henry R. Selden defended Susan B. Anthony in 1873 for unlawfully voting as a woman)W.E.B. Dubois becomes first African American to receive a PhD. From Harvard.

36. 1896Utah becomes 45th State. William McKiney elected the 25th U.S. President. Gold becomes the base currency. http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/williammckinley/

37. 1897-18991898 Spanish-American war (April-August).U.S. victorious; U.S. granted control over Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.Annie Oakley (a sharp-shooter and member of the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show) promotes the service of women in the Spanish-American war by offering her services on a voluntary basis.Hawaii is annexed; does not become a state until 1959. 1899 Mt. Rainier National Park is established, 5th National Park.