1. America 1887-1892 Darlene Lowndes

2. US PRESIDENT http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/grovercleveland

3. 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. SenatorHenry 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

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

5. 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

6. National Geographic Society Founded 1888 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

7. Oklahoma Land Rush 1889 http://library of congress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Run_of_1889

8. PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON 1889 http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/benjaminharrison

9. NEW UNITED STATES 1889 North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington

10. Johnstown Flood 1889 Johnstown, PA June 1889Main Street, Looking west.The New York TimesPhoto Archine. http://newyorktimes

11. HULL HOUSE FOUNDED 1889 BY JANE ADDAMS Jane Addams Hull-House Museum http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/_museum/visitors.html

12. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 1890 http://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm

13. NEW UNITED STATES 1890 IDAHO & WYOMING

14. WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE 1890 Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library

15. 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

16. GENERAL ELECTRIC FOUNDED 1892 This Room is Equipped With EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT Do not attempt to light with Match. Simply turn key on wall by the door The use of electric for lighting is in no way harmful To health, nor does it effect the soundness of sleep http://www.ge.com/innovation/timeline/index.html

17. SIERRA CLUB 1892 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/

18. BALTIMORE CRISIS 1891 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

19. Homestead Strike 1892 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

20. 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

21. EXPANSION OF SECOND MORRILL ACT 1890 Historically 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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