The National Women s Suffrage Association and the American Women s Suffrage Association, both formed in 1869, merge to consolidate the women s suffrage movement. Sherman Anti-trust Act is passed. Wyoming enters the Union as the first state to have women s suffrage. Yosemite Park is created by an act of Congress. The Southern Farmers Alliance, the Farmers Mutual Benefit Association, and the Colored Farmers Alliance meet in Ocala, Florida, to see if there is some way to take joint action on their respective grievances.
Racial barriers are too strong in the South and nothing comes of the meeting.
Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives. The Populist Party, also known as the People s Party, holds its first national convention in Omaha, Nebraska. 1893 President Cleveland is inaugurated for a second term. E.C. Knight Co. The Supreme Court finds that the Sherman Anti-Trust Act is applicable only to monopolies involved in interstate trade. Ruling that a sugar combine is beyond the law, the Court draws a fine line between manufacturing and commerce.