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April 10 – Daniel W. Voorhees, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897 (born 1827) April 23 – John Henry Raap, Chicago entrepreneur and retailer (born 1840) August 14 – James Z. George, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1881 to 1897 (born 1826) October 3 – Samuel J. R. McMillan, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1875 to 1887 (born 1826)
June 21, 1897 Indiana 4th: William S. Holman (D) Died April 22, 1897. Francis M. Griffith (D) December 6, 1897 South Carolina 6th: John L. McLaurin (D) Resigned May 31, 1897, after being appointed to the U.S. Senate: James Norton (D) December 6, 1897 Illinois 6th: Edward D. Cooke (R) Died June 24, 1897 Henry S. Boutell (R) November 23, 1897 ...
March 4, 1897 – McKinley becomes the 25th president; and Hobart becomes the 24th vice president; Wreckage of the USS Maine. 1897 – Boston subway completed; 1897 – Dingley tariff; 1898 – The City of Greater New York is created through the annexation of Brooklyn, Western Queens County, and Staten Island into New York City
The Dingley Act of 1897 restored the high tariffs that had been reduced in 1894, and the Gold Standard Act of 1900 effectively ended bimetallism in the United States, establishing the gold standard as the exclusive monetary system of the United States. The War Revenue Act of 1898 raised taxes to fund the Spanish–American War.
McKinley's foreign policy created an overseas empire and put the U.S. on the world's list of major powers. In 1897 the economy rapidly recovered from the severe depression, called the Panic of 1893. McKinley's supporters in 1900 postulated that the new tariff and the commitment to the gold standard were responsible.
The 1st United States Congress, comprising the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, met from March 4, 1789, to March 4, 1791, during the first two years of George Washington's presidency, first at Federal Hall in New York City and later at Congress Hall in Philadelphia.
In addition to key events during the Constitutional Convention and afterward while the Constitution was put before the states for their ratification, this timeline includes important events that occurred during the run-up to the convention and during the nation's transition from government under the Articles of Confederation to government under ...
In ratification conventions, the anti-slavery delegates sometimes began as anti-ratification votes. Still, the Constitution "as written" was an improvement over the Articles from an abolitionist point of view. The Constitution provided for abolition of the slave trade but the Articles did not. The outcome could be determined gradually over time ...