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Washington City, District of Columbia in the 1890s: 1 through 10 of 18

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  1. Farmers' Alliance Political Agenda Published in National Economist
    date January 18, 1890map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Agriculture

    On January 18, 1890, The National Economist published the political viewpoints of the strengthening Farmers' Alliance. The article indicated that Alliance leaders remained skeptical of the political system and its ability to represent all parts of the population (especially farmers). In response to the closed two party system of the time, the Alliance strove to create a third movement in accord with...

  2. Journalist Kincaid Shoots and Kills Former Congressman Taulbee in U.S. Capitol
    date February 28, 1890map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Crime/Violence

    In the 1880s, Louisville Times journalist Charles E. Kincaid reported that married Congressman William Taulbee was seen in a “compromising way' with a young woman in the United States Patent Office. As a result, Taulbee's political career ended. On February 28, 1890, Taulbee came across Kincaid in Washington, D.C. and threatened the journalist. According to a Capitol doorkeeper who witnessed...

  3. The Debate Over Colonization
    date February 28, 1890map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Government, Law, Politics, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Bishop H. M. Turner decided to pick up a copy of the Evening Star on the night of February 28th, 1890, when a certain headline caught his eye: Bruce on the race issue. The Honorable Blanche Kelsoe Bruce was an old friend of the Bishop's who had become a Senator of the state of Mississippi and moved to Washington D.C. Each man greatly admired the other for his work and his distinguished accomplishments....

  4. Debate over McKinley Tariff
    date January, 1890 to May, 1890map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Agriculture, Economy

    Republican Congressman William McKinley from Ohio introduced his plan for the tariff in the Spring of 1890. The legislation set the tariff rate at fifty percent, the highest in United States history. Congressman McKinley and its supporters designed the tariff to protect agriculture. However, the group forwarding the interests of the farmers, the Farmers' Alliance, called for the removal of the tariff...

  5. Debate over Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Sherman Silver Purchase Act
    date January, 1890 to June, 1890map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Agriculture, Economy

    The Sherman Anti-Trust Act represented the first action by the federal government to curb business monopolies. The Act declared the illegality of any contract or combination between business entities that resulted in restraining trade. The Act also granted government attorneys and district courts the authority to investigate these trusts. The Farmers' Alliance actively supported government intervention...

  6. Jim Crows to the Senate-a White Mississippians' Defense of Supremacy
    date December 31, 1890map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    On December 31, 1890, Senator James Z. George (D. Miss), a man Dunbar Rowland calls a life-long resident of Carroll County, began his overwhelmingly convincing speech on the Senate Floor defending the newly written Mississippi Constitution. The new constitution, according to Rowland's 1902 reflections, was drafted in order to eliminate ignorance at the ballot box, and Senator George's defense was apparently...

  7. Democrats Continue to Oppose a “Force Bill'
    date January 5, 1891map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    The “Force Bill' was a name commonly given to legislation designed to protect black voting rights through federal supervision of congressional elections. Republicans generally supported these bills, but the Democrats fiercely resisted them. An Alabama editor charged that those in the north who were in support of a Force Bill were merely out for the blood of the South.In a moment of triumph,...

  8. First Black Novel Iola Leroy is Published
    date April, 1892map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Arts/Leisure, Race-Relations

    In April 1892, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper published Iola Leroy; one of the first (some say the first) novel to be written by an African American. The book presented a closer and more in-depth look of black womanhood. It was a story about a refined mulatto woman raised to believe she was white until she and her mother are sold into slavery. Additionally, throughout the novel, Harper introduces a variety...

  9. The Geary Act
    date May 5, 1892map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations

    In 1892, the United States Congress granted an extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 known as the Geary Act. This original law, passed in 1882, allowed a ten-year moratorium for Chinese immigration. The United States government believed that Chinese immigration endangered the good order of certain localities. In addition, this law required that Chinese immigrants register and obtain a certificate...

  10. The Washington Post reports on the Homestead Strike
    date June 30, 1892 to November 20, 1892map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Economy

    The Homestead Strike was a series of labor confrontations that occurred for nearly five months in 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. On June 30, 1892, a three-year contract with the National Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers expired. The Carnegie Steel Company, managed at this time by Henry Clay Frick, attempted to cut the wages of the skilled steel workers. When the workers refused...

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