period 6 kay

  • Beginning of Great Sioux War

  • Medicine Lodge Treaty

    This established the reservation system
  • Knights of Labor

    THe United States first major national labor union , that advocated for broad social and economic reform, ending child labor, and equal pay.
  • Panic of 1873

    lasted from 1873-1879, caused bank failures, unemployment, and industrial decline
  • Munn v. Illinois

    U.S Supreme Court case that the court upheld the power of the government to regulate private industries.
  • Compromise of 1877

    A deal that settled the 1876 election. Under the election of Rutherford B. Hayes, federal troops were removed from the South, ending the era of reconstruction.
  • Great Railroad Strike of 1877

    After economic depression the Ohio Railroad COmpany had to lower wages for the 3rd time in the year. When laborers stopped working, Hayes responded by sending federal troops to protect the railroad. This was the first time soldiers were used for labor matters
  • Bland-Allison Act of 1878

    Act of COngress, making the U.S Treasury to buy specific amounts of silver to put into circulation as silver dollars.
  • A Century of Dishonor

    A novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson shedding light on the mistreatment of indians. This led to some Americans sympathizing for the Natives
  • Tuskegee University

    Booker T. Washington created Tuskegee University to encourage other African AMericans to learn trades and become more economically self-sufficient
  • Pendleton Act of 1881

    civil service reform mandating that positions in federal government should be awarded on merit and not political affiliation.
  • Immigration Act of 1882

    First immigration law enacted in the United States.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

    THis Act denied additional CHinese laborers from entering the country,only letting student and merchants to migrate.
  • Civil Rights Cases of 1883

    5 legal supreme court cases,that ended into a ruling that was unconstitutional, ending in the approval of Jim Crow Laws.
  • Contact Labor Law of 1885

    Prohibited the importation and migration of foreigners under an agreement to perform labor in the US
  • American Federation of Labor founded

    THe AMerican Federation of Labor was founded by Samuel GOmpers. The union wanted better wages, work hours,and working conditions.
  • Haymarket Affair of 1886

    Local police opened fire on a crowd of 1500, due to a protest of anarchists wanting 8 hour work days that were unsuccessful.
  • Wabash v. Illinois

    Supreme Court Case decision that severely limited the rights of states to control interstate commerce.
  • Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

    This law established the Interstate Commerce Commission to monitor the business operation of carriers transporting goods and people as a means of regulating railroad prices.
  • Dawes Severalty Act of 1887

    divided Indian reservation land into several private family plots.
  • Oklahoma Territory open

    An amendment passed providing the creation of homestead settlements in the unassigned lands, this states territory was officially opened.
  • Hull House

    Hull house was founded in 1889, as the first settlement house in Chicago by Jane Addams. It was a place where immigrants could live and learn after migrating to the United states
  • Ocala Platform

    supported lowering tariffs and to support the poorest population of society. The platform also in support of the establishment of sub treasuries which would allow farmers to store goods until the demand increased
  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act

    The Sherman Silver Purchase Act required the U.S government to purchase twice as much silver as before, and added to the money already in circulation to replace the Bland-Allison Act of 1878.
  • Morrill Act

    The Morrill Act made states establish separate land grant institutions or African American student to show that admission was not restricted by race. It also gave federal funds for agricultural education.
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    The Sherman Anti-trust Act was the first federal act against monopolies, used during Roosevelts presidency for labor unions.
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association

    The National American Woman Suffrage Association was founded in 1890, by leading suffragists to organize the women's suffrage movement. It was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
  • McKinley Tariff

    The McKinley Tariff increased protective tariffs on imported goods by 50% to protect domestic industries. It shielded U.S manufacturing and increased consumer prices that triggered political consequences, costing Republicans to loose the 1890 election.
  • Wounded Knee

    The U.S government officials banned the religion "Ghost Dance" in South Dakota. Trying to hold up this ban, soldiers opened fire killing and wounding many of the Lakota people.
  • Sierra CLub

    Sierra Club was founded in 1892 by John Muir, it was the oldest and the largest environmental organization in the U.S
  • Ellis Island opening

    Immigration station in New York that opened in 1892, in which new migrants had to pass medical and document examination and pay entry to formally be allowed in the U.S
  • Homestead Strike

    Homestead Steel Workers were in retaliation against wage cuts, the protest was taken down by the Pinkerton Police, damaging the union due to the violence.
  • Panic of 1893

    An economic depression due to railroad companies overestimating themselves, causing bank failures. It was the worse economic crash in AMerican history till that point.
  • Anti-saloon League

    The Anti-Saloon League was founded in 1893, become one of the most successful political activist group that forced the issue of prohibition, to state and local election.
  • Wilson-Gorman Tariff

    Reduced U.S tariff rates from numbers set by the McKinley Tariff in 1890 and also imposed a 2% tax rate
  • Coxeys Army March to Washington

    Major protest of unemployed U.S workers led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey. The group march on Washington DC to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
  • Pullman Strike

    Pullman lowered wages to lower rent in "Company Town". Because of this, the American railway union refused to move train cars, gaining nothing when CLeveland shut down the strike.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    This U.S Supreme Court case decision legalized state ordered segregation as long as facilities for both black and white were equal.
  • Dingley Tariff

    Introduced by Nelson Dingley to raise taxes to counteract the decrease from the Wilson-Gorman Tariff in 1894