Milestones

1872

Ulysses Grant is reelected president

1890

Sherman Silver Purchase Act requires government

1873

Congress suspends the coining of silver (“Crime

Silver purchase

Of‘73”)

1890-

Blacks are deprived of the vote in the South

1876

Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president

1900

1877

Farmers’ Alliance movement is founded

1892

People’s (Populist) party is founded

1878

Bland-Allison Act authorizes government

Cleveland is elected president a second time

Silver purchases

1893

Sherman Silver Purchase Act is repealed

1879

Specie payments resume

1893

Panic of 1893 causes industrial depression

1880

James Garfield is elected president

1894

Coxey’s Army marches to Washington to

1881

Garfield is assassinated; Grover Cleveland

Demand relief

Becomes president

1895

Supreme Court declares federal income tax

1881

Booker T. Washington founds Tuskegee Institute

Unconstitutional (Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and

For blacks

Trust Company)

1883

Pendleton Act creates Civil Service Commission

Booker T. Washington urges self-improvement in

Supreme Court Overturns Civil Rights Act of

Atlanta Compromise Speech

1875 in the civil rights cases

J. P. Morgan raises $62 million in gold for the

1884

Republicans support Democrats during

U. S. Treasury

Mugwump Movement

1896

William Jennings Bryan delivers “Cross of

Grover Cleveland is elected president

Gold” speech

1887

Interstate Commerce Act regulates railroad rates

William McKinley is elected president

Cleveland delivers tariff message

Supreme Court upholds “separate but equal” in

1888

Benjamin Harrison is elected president Englishman James Bryce analyzes American

Plessy v. Ferguson

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