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Timeline - The 1890s. Immigrants streamed into the halls of Ellis Island in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, they crossed the nation, growing the cities of the east coast, taking part in land rushes, and adding to the experiment that was the United States of America.
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July 2, 1890: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act became law in the United States.July 13, 1890: John C. Frémont, American explorer and political figure, died in New York City at the age of 77.July 29, 1890: Artist Vincent Van Gogh died in France at the age of 37 after shooting himself two days earlier.October 1, 1890: At the urging of John Muir, The U.S. Congress designated Yosemite a National Park.February 14, 1891: William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general, died in New York City at the age of 71.March 17, 1891: The St. Patrick's Day parade in New York Citybegan using the traditional route up Fifth Avenue.April 7, 1891: American showman Phineas T. Barnum died in Bridgeport, Connecticut at the age of 80.May 5, 1891: Carnegie Hall opened in New York City.March 26, 1892: American poet Walt Whitmandied in Camden, New Jersey at the age of 72.May 28, 1892: Writer and naturalist John Muirfounded the Sierra Club. Muir's campaigning for conservation would exert an influence on American life in the 20th century.July 6, 1892: The Homestead Steel Strikein western Pennsylvania turned into a ferocious day-long battle between Pinkerton men and townspeople.August 4, 1892: Andrew Borden and his wife were murdered in Fall River, Massachusetts and his daughter Lizzie Borden was accusedof the gruesome crime.January 17, 1893: Rutherford B. Hayes, who became president following the disputed election of 1876, died in Ohio at the age of 70.February 1893: Thomas A. Edisonfinished building his first motion picture studio.March 4, 1893: Grover Clevelandwas inaugurated as president of the United States for the second time.May 1, 1893: The 1893 World's Fair, known as the Columbian Exposition, opened in Chicago.March 25, 1894: Coxey's Army, a march to protest unemployment that was largely the result of the Panic of 1893, departed from Ohio on its way to Washington, D.C.April 30, 1894: Coxey's Army reached Washington, D.C. and its leaders were arrested the next day. The demands of Jacob Coxey, which focused on great government intervention in the economy, would ev...May 1894: The Pullman Strikebegan, and spread throughout the summer before being put down by federal troops.June 22, 1894: Pierre de Coubertinorganized a meeting which led to the creation of the International Olympic Committee.February 20, 1895: Abolitionist author Frederick Douglassdied in Washington, D.C. at the age of 77.May 6, 1895: Future president Theodore Rooseveltbecame president of the New York City police board, effectively becoming the police commissioner. His efforts to reform the police department became...December 1895: President Grover Cleveland arranged for a White House Christmas tree litwith Edison electric bulbs.Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, arranged in his will for his estate to fund the Nobel Prize.January 15, 1896: Photographer Mathew Brady died in New York City.April 1896: The first modern Olympic games, the idea of Pierre de Coubertin, are held in Athens, Greece.March 4, 1897: William McKinley was inaugurated as president of the United States.July 1897: The Klondike Gold Rush began in Alaska.February 15, 1898: The American battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in the harbor at Havana, Cuba, a mysterious event that will lead to the United States going to war with Spain.April 25, 1898: The United States declared war on Spain.May 1, 1898: At the Battle of Manila Bay, an American fleet in the Philippines defeated a Spanish naval force.May 19, 1898: William Ewart Gladstone, former prime minister of Britain, died in Wales at the age of 88.July 1899: Newsboys in New York City went on strike for several weeks in a significant action related to child labor.July 18, 1899: Writer Horatio Algerdied in Massachusetts at the age of 67.1894: The Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike, an unsuccessful national eight-week strike by miners of hard coal in the United States, which began on April 21, 1894. Initially, the strike was a major success.
March 8 – North Dakota State University is founded in Fargo, North Dakota. March 27 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 people and injuring 200. March 28 – Washington State University is founded in Pullman, Washington. May – National American Woman Suffrage Association established.
Overview. The period of US history from the 1890s to the 1920s is usually referred to as the Progressive Era, an era of intense social and political reform aimed at making progress toward a better society.
- The idea of sterilization was based in part on a misunderstanding of Darwinism and natural selection. White Supremacists adhered to "Social Darwini...
- I'd say it was a mixture of pro and con. How can anyone be against the Pure Food and Drug Act? We still today depend on that to be able to buy groc...
- There's also the problem of overwhelming racism during this period. Even white 'progressives' like Roosevelt didn't concern themselves with matters...
- Sterilization is a medical procedure that stops the reproductive system from working. More commonly referred as vasectomy for men, and tubal ligati...
- Not necessarily! A lot of people who underwent involuntary sterilization were told that they were getting a routine surgery and put under and only...
- You could argue both sides. Personally, I find that WWI marked the end of the Progressive Era, as acts like the Sedition Act ended civil liberties...
- Yes. Corporations and trusts are larger today than ever before. Have you heard about the recent college admissions scandal (https://www.nytimes.com...
- I'm assuming you're referencing this quote: "The genocidal policies of Nazi Germany ultimately discredited the 'science' of eugenics, but not befor...
- "Progressive" during the Progressive Era means both progress in passing a great amount of economic, political, social, and environmental reforms, a...
- Women's rights advanced a bit, and women were given the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Hope that helps!
Overview In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. The American West, 1865-1900 The completion of the railroads to the West following the Civil War opened up vast areas of the region to settlement and economic development.
The dawn of the twentieth century saw the convergence of industrialization, urbanization, and rapid immigration; an era known as the emergence of Modern America. The rise of the city as the port of entry for the immigrant population and as the center of business put strains on urban America.
