HISTORIC EVENTS: 1871-1890
Native American habitation fades from the horizons as industrialism takes hold.
- 1871 B. F. Goodrich opens rubber factory, Akron, OH
- 1871 The Chicago fire started by Mrs. O’Leary’s cow
- 1872 Susan B. Anthony leads protest for women at polling place
- 1872 Yellowstone National Park first national park
- 1875 Gold discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota
- 1876 Custer at Little Big Horn in Montana
- 1877 Crazy Horse killed in Nebraska prison
- 1878 First electric street lighting by Ohioan Charles F. Brush
- 1878 Thomas Alva Edison invents the electric light
- 1879 John D. Rockefeller organizes Standard Oil Trust
- 1881 Booker T. Washington opens Tuskegee Institute
- 1881 Surrender of Sioux Sitting Bull
- 1881 James A. Garfield assassinated
- 1883 Krakatau erupts
- 1883 Brooklyn Bridge completed; Statue of Liberty presented by France
- 1886 Geronimo surrenders
- 1887 Susan Salter, Argonia, Kansas, first U.S. woman mayor
- 1888 First electric streetcars, Richmond, VA
- 1889 Indian Territory becomes Oklahoma Territory
- 1889 10-story "skyscraper" erected in Chicago.
- 1890 Thomas Alva Edison invents motion pictures
- 1890 Sitting Bull killed
- 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee