What Year Was it???By Kathleen Stanton

EDUC 515

Yosemite State Park was created, thanks to John Muir

WYOMING!!!

44th State!

This State enters the union…

Their State animal is the bison…

That’s right… Wyoming!

The 44th State!

.

Technology: Expansion of the RailroadOver 125,000 Miles of Railroad in the United

States!!!

Structures

First “skycraper” built: the Wainright Building, St.

Loius, MOForth Rail Bridge, in Scotland, the world’s 1st major steel bridge, is built

Women’s Organizations…Daughters of the American Revolution were founded

National Women’s Suffrage Associationis formed from the 2 largest suffrage Organizations. They became the parentOrganization of suffrage groups acrossThe nation.

DeathsVan Gogh Died in this

year…

Congress creates Oklahoma Territory on Native American Territory

The Battle of Wounded Knee

Wovoka, a Lakota prophet, encouraged the Ghost Dance

After Chief Sitting Bull’s Death, many Lakota left the reservations, heading towards the Badlands

The Lakota were surounded by the 7th US Calvary; a skirmish began and hundreds of unarmed men, women, and children were killed.

Literature The Picture of Dorian Gray,

by Oscar Wilde is

published

“How The Other Half Lives” is published, exposing the conditions of the slums of New York City. This

is one of the first pioneers of muckraking journalism.

What Year was it???