| 1884 | Frances Willard calls for woman suffrage. |
| 1890 | National American Woman Suffrage Association formed. Wyoming only state allowing women to vote in national elections. Southern Farmers’ Alliance numbers three million members. |
| 1892 | People’s (Populist) Party founded. Homestead lockout ends in violence. |
| 1893 | Stock market crash touches off economic depression. President Grover Cleveland nixes attempt to annex Hawai’i. |
| 1894 | Miners strike in Cripple Creek, Colorado. Coxey’s army marches to Washington, D.C. Pullman boycott crushed. |
| 1895 | Cleveland enforces Monroe Doctrine in border dispute between British Guiana and Venezuela. |
| 1896 | Democrats and Populists support William Jennings Bryan for president. William McKinley elected president. |
| 1898 | USS Maine explodes in Havana harbor. Congress declares war on Spain. Admiral George Dewey destroys Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. U.S. troops defeat Spanish forces in Cuba. Treaty of Paris ends war with Spain. United States annexes Hawai’i. |
| 189 | Secretary of State John Hay enunciates Open Door policy. Boxer uprising takes place in China. |
| 1901 | Boxer Protocol imposed on Chinese government. |