What are some important events in American history between1877 and 1939?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_history

As opposed to some important events before and after those dates???? Yes... intriguing.

mexican-american war, if im not mistaken...ww1 and ww2...the shortest american presidency was in those years.

teapot dome scandal.....

lots of stuff.

It was the Spainish-American War (Remember the Maine). The Mexican-American War (Remember the Alamo) was a pre-Civil War event.
The rise of the labor movement with the Pullman Strike, Haymarket Square, Homestead Strike and the Mollie Maquires.

thanks candy :D

You are welcome.
Most people do not remember that there ever was a US/Mexico war.

are you kidding me?
we americans fight everyone. LOOK OUT, ALBANIA!!!!

hmmm 1877 through 1939? that sounds like a high school history project

are you kidding me?
we americans fight everyone. LOOK OUT, ALBANIA!!!!


So true, we're involved in like every war ever!!!111!1 :p

Excuse me for not actually addressing the question. (When did that ever stop anyone responding to a thread!!??) But I was intrigued by the date "1877". Is this regarded as a key date in US history? I was unaware.

Now, I think that was the date in which local control was handed back to the last of the old Confederate states (Florida?), but that was a process that had been going on for some years. The whole business of relations between North/South and black/white seems such a continuous story that I am rather surprised to see this year singled out as a "turning point" year.

Is the year 1877 commonly chosen when US history is divided up? (Like 1066, 1485, 1603, 1689 in British history?)

By comparison with your British examples, I would say there must have been a change of gvt in that year.