| 1884 | - Frances Willard calls for woman suffrage.
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| 1890 | - National American Woman Suffrage Association formed.
- Wyoming only state allowing women to vote in national elections.
- Southern Farmers’ Alliance numbers three million members.
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| 1892 | - People’s (Populist) Party founded.
- Homestead lockout.
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| 1893 | - Stock market crash touches off economic depression.
- President Grover Cleveland nixes attempt to annex Hawai’i.
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| 1894 | - Miners’ strike in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
- Coxey’s army marches to Washington, D.C.
- Pullman boycott crushed.
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| 1895 | - Cleveland enforces Monroe Doctrine in border dispute between British Guiana and Venezuela.
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| 1896 | - Democrats and Populists support William Jennings Bryan for president.
- William McKinley elected president.
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| 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.
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| 1899–1900 | - Secretary of State John Hay enunciates Open Door policy in China.
- Boxer uprising in China.
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| 1901 | - Boxer Protocol imposed on Chinese government.
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