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Commonwealth v. Pullis was the first known court case arising from a labor strike in the United States. After a three-day trial, the jury found the defendants guilty of "a combination to raise their wages" and fined. [1] 1816 (England) Food riots broke out in East Anglia. Workers demanded a double wage and for the setting of triple prices for ...
Members: 76 senators 293 representatives 8 non-voting delegates: Senate majority: Split [1] (Republicans controlled the all-too important Senate committees) Senate President: Chester A. Arthur (R) (until September 19, 1881) Vacant (from September 19, 1881) House majority: Republican (plurality; became majority in middle of first Congressional ...
May 4 – The first supposedly Major League Baseball game is played. May 8 – The first Major League Baseball home run is hit by Ezra Sutton of the Cleveland Forest Citys. June 10 – Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on the Han River forts in Korea.
Since the Constitution allows for one representative for as few as 30,000 citizens, Congress passed new, higher limits for the House, which grew in size until a law passed in 1911, based on the 1910 United States census, established the present upper limit of 435 members of the House. [16] Since the House's size was fixed but the population ...
Adams, James Truslow, ed. Dictionary of American History (5 Vols. 1940) Kutler, Stanley I. ed. Dictionary of American History (3rd Edition 10 Volumes, 2003) Martin, Michael. Dictionary of American History (Littlefield, Adams 1989) Morris. Richard, ed. Encyclopedia of American History (7th ed. 1996) Purvis, Thomas L.
Members: 76 senators 293 representatives 8 non-voting delegates: Senate majority: Republican (with tie-breaking VP) Senate President: William A. Wheeler (R) House majority: Democratic: House Speaker: Samuel J. Randall (D) Sessions; Special [a]: March 5, 1877 – March 17, 1877 1st: October 15, 1877 – December 3, 1877 2nd: December 3, 1877 ...
1834 – Slavery debates at Lane Theological Seminary are one of the first major public discussions of the topic. 1835 – Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America published. 1835 – Second Seminole War begins in Florida as members of the Seminole tribe resist relocation. 1836 – Creek War of 1836; 1836 – Samuel Colt invents the revolver.
Members of the association, which soon included Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas, were expected to forswear participation in the Salon. The organizers invited a number of other progressive artists to join them in their inaugural exhibition, including the slightly older Eugène Boudin , whose example had first persuaded Monet to ...