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The years between 1878 and 1899 were a soul-searching time for Americans, as they examined the basic values they lived by. Middle-class white women became interested in social causes such as helping the urban poor, promoting temperance or prohibition of alcohol, and winning suffrage, or the right to vote, for themselves.
January–June period – George W. Johnson becomes the first African American to record phonograph cylinders, in New York. January 1 – In Michigan, the wooden steamer Mackinaw burns in a fire on the Black River. January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House. January 22 – The United Mine Workers ...
29 de jan. de 2024 · From the American Civil War, which led to freedom for millions of enslaved people, to the Industrial Revolution, which sparked unprecedented levels of growth, wealth, disease, pollution, and social change—transformation was everywhere. But how did these political and social shifts impact daily existence for American people?
American History and the United States History Timeline, 1890-1899, from America's Best History: The Age of Immigration, includes the top events of each year of the decade from the Oklahoma Land Rush to the Klondike Gold Rush to the Spanish American War.
The last great North American "Gold Rush" begins on April 6, 1896 when gold is discovered in the Yukon District of Canada. William McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th President of the United States on March 4, 1897. The battleship USS Maine explodes in Havana, Cuba's harbor on February 15, 1898.
7 de mar. de 2024 · But by 1889, the Wild West is shrinking, 50,000 people participated in the first Oklahoma land rush; the US population grew over 25% in 10 years; and more people than ever live in urban areas. By the 1890's, with the age of industrialization in full swing, people are just as likely to work in a factory as they are on a farm.
The cultural identity of white “Anglo Saxon” America was in crisis by 1890. The prevailing myth of a Puritan origin sustained by largely Protestant Northern European and Western European immigration could hardly stand up to the reality of massive demographic change and terrible social inequities.
