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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. More 1800s
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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 67.1890 in U.S. states. States. Alabama. Arkansas. California. Colorado. Connecticut. Delaware. Florida. Georgia. Idaho. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Kansas. Kentucky. Louisiana. Maine. Maryland. Massachusetts.
The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899. In American popular culture, the decade would later be nostalgically referred to as the "Gay Nineties" ( Gay as in 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy').
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. Progressive Era reformers sought to harness the power of the federal government to eliminate unethical and unfair business practices, reduce ...
Immigration to the United States, 1851-1900 In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States. City Life in the Late 19th Century Between 1880 and 1900, cities in the United States grew at a dramatic rate.
One explanation for the United States' entry into the imperial game was peer pressure. Between 1870 and 1890, the industrial nations of Europe and Asia, particularly Great Britain, France, Germany, and Japan, scrambled to seize territory in the undeveloped world. With unmatched firepower and technology, these imperial powers divided Africa and ...
