America

AMERICA 1887-1892

Darlene Lowndes

US PRESIDENT

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1887The Dawes General Allotment Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress regarding the distribution of land to Native Americans in Indian Territory

(later Oklahoma). It was signed into law February 8, 1887. Named after its sponsor,

U.S. Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, the act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906

by the Burke Act. The act remained in effect until 1934. The act provided for the division of

tribally held lands into individually-owned parcels and opening "surplus" lands to

settlement by non-Indians and development by railroads

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Act

The Hatch Act of 1887 ch. 314, 24 Stat. 440, enacted 1887-03-02, 7 U.S.C. § 361a et seq.) gave federal land grants to states in order to create a series of agricultural experiment stations, as well as pass along new information, especially in the areas of soil minerals and plant growth. State agricultural stations Created under this act were usually connected with land-grant state colleges and universities founded under the Morrill Act of 1862.

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UC BERKELEY

 1887 •  Earthquake scienceEarth Sciences professors set up the Western Hemisphere's first string of seismographic stations, to systematically record seismic activity and publish these earthquake records

http://berkeley.edu/about/hist/timeline.shtml

National Geographic Society Founded

1888

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Oklahoma Land Rush1889

http://library of congress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Run_of_1889

PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON1889

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NEW UNITED STATES 1889

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North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington

Johnstown Flood

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Johnstown, PA June 1889Main Street, Looking west.The New York TimesPhoto Archine.

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HULL HOUSEFOUNDED 1889 BY JANE ADDAMS

http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/_museum/visitors.html

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK1890

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NEW UNITED STATES 1890IDAHO & WYOMING

WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE1890

Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library

NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION FOUNDED

1890

50th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage - 6c

  (Suffragettes, 1920, and Woman operating Voting Machine)

50th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage -

  (Suffragettes, 1920, and Woman

operating Voting Machine)  

http://www.usapostagestamps.com/1970/Women_Suffrage_6c.htm

GENERAL ELECTRIC FOUNDED1892

This Room is Equipped WithEDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT

Do not attempt to light withMatch. Simply turn key on wall by the door

The use of electric for lighting is in no way harmfulTo health, nor does it effect the soundness of sleep

http://www.ge.com/innovation/timeline/index.html

SIERRA CLUB1892

John Muir (1838-1914) was America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist, and founder of the Sierra Club. This website, known as the "John Muir Exhibit" features his life and contributions.

http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/

BALTIMORE CRISIS1891

The Baltimore Crisis was a diplomatic incident that took place between Chile and the United States of America as the result of growing US influence in the South Coast of the Pacific in the 1890s. It remains a nodal event because it marked a dramatic shift in United States-Chile relations. It was triggered by the stabbing of two US sailors in the "True Blue Saloon" in Valparaíso on 16. October 1891.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Crisis

Homestead Strike1892

It was one of the most serious disputes in US labor history. The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the Pittsburgh-area town of Homestead, Pennsylvania. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA) was an American labor union formed in 1876. It was a craft union representing skilled iron and steel workers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike

1887State Normal College for Colored Students

FLORIDA A & M Land Grant School 1891

-grant colleges or land grant institutions) are institutions of higher education in the United States designated by each state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. The Morrill Acts funded educational institutions by granting federally controlled land to the states for the states to develop or sell to raise funds to establish and endow "land grant" colleges. The mission of these institutions as set forth in the 1862 Act is to focus on the teaching of agriculture, science and engineering as a response to the industrial revolution and changing social class rather than higher education's historic core of classical studies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grant_college

EXPANSION OF SECOND MORRILL ACT 1890Historically black schools as land grant colleges

This act required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Colleges_Act

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