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Há 3 dias · After 1900 and the assassination of President William McKinley, the Progressive Era brought political, business, and social reforms (e.g., new roles for and government expansion of education, higher status for women, a curtailment of corporate excesses, and modernization of many areas of government and society).
Há 5 dias · World’s Columbian Exposition, fair held in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus ’s voyage to America. In the United States there had been a spirited competition for this exposition among the country’s leading cities.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Há 4 dias · Prior to 1890, the individual states, rather than the federal government, regulated immigration to the United States. The Immigration Act of 1891 established a Commissioner of Immigration in the Treasury Department. The Canadian Agreement of 1894 extended U.S. immigration restrictions to Canadian ports.
Há 3 dias · 1890 (United States) United Mine Workers of America founded. 1890 (United States) United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Strike occurred; the union demanded an eight-hour work day. 25 July 1890 (United States) New York garment workers won the right to unionize after a seven-month strike.
8 de mai. de 2024 · Webster’s International Dictionary, in 1890, described it as “that part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region;…extreme part of a country.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
21 de mai. de 2024 · Time Period. Post-Reconstruction through the Gilded Age, 1875 through 1900. In the years that followed Reconstruction, Arkansas experienced changes that paralleled trends taking place elsewhere in the nation. Nationally, the creation of the mass market and the economic growth that followed gave the era its basic character.
Há 5 dias · Great Migration, in U.S. history, the widespread migration of African Americans in the 20th century from rural communities in the South to large cities in the North and West. It is estimated that from 1916 to 1970 some six million black Southerners relocated as part of the Great Migration.
