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March 25 – Opening of an international Congress for Women's Rights organized by Susan B. Anthony in Washington, D.C., leading to formation of the International Council of Women, a key event in the international women's movement. May 1 – Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is established by the United States Congress.
But it was also a time when Americans developed a social conscience. Led by women seeking to fulfill their role in modern life, people came to terms with the problems of racial injustice, child child abuse, immigration, alcoholism, and suffrage.
10 mag 2015 · American Life in the 1880s By the 1880s, the Gilded Age is in full swing, ringing in an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. Thanks to the mass production of railroads, creating traveling and shipping conveniences, most western states experienced an economic boon.
- Vickie Mcdonough
11 ott 2019 · 1880s women’s fashion was defined by the rigidly structured bustle and an abundance of decoration. Dress reformers, influenced by artistic movements, protested these heavy, ultra restrictive trends. Womenswear. F ashion in the 1880s was increasingly slender and angular, marked by heavy decoration.
2 giorni fa · Learn about the Great Blizzard of 1888, one of the fiercest East Coast storms ever recorded. As railroads drove western expansion, Buffalo Bill brought Wild West shows back east, hiring displaced Native people.
Courtesy of Connecticut Historical Society. There was no stopping Americans' ingenuity in a storm with drifts that reached second stories of buildings in New York and other cities. It dumped more than four feet of snow in Albany and Saratoga Springs, New York, and Bennington, Vermont, according to snowfall statistics compiled in Caplovich’s book.
2 feb 2023 · The requirements of the Homestead Act. Frank Meadow Sutcliffe/Getty Images. When the Homestead Act was signed into law in 1862, it opened up hundreds of thousands of acres for those who were willing to head west, settle on a barren patch of land, and develop it.
