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.
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 U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana harbor.
Congress declares war on Spain.
Admiral George Dewey destroys Spanish fleet in Manila Bay, the Philippines.
U.S. troops defeat Spanish forces in Cuba.
Treaty of Paris ends war with Spain.
United States annexes Hawai'i.
1899–1900 Secretary of State John Hay enunciates Open Door policy in China.
Boxer uprising in China.
1901 Boxer Protocol imposed on Chinese government.