What was going on in the U.S. and world in the year 1885?

Question

Could anybody give be enough info on what was happening in the year 1885 in the U.S. and/or around the world? The information has to complete one note card.

I can't seem to find anything of any sorts that was happening in 1885 so I was wondering if you could. Help please? Thank you. =]

Answer 1

Other than what they said--here are some more specific events:

--Feb 18 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published and became one of the writer's most famous works. Samuel Clemens, born in 1835, first used the pseudonym of Mark Twain when he wrote a humorous travel account in 1863. Books such as Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer made Mark Twain a popular American author because people could relate to his stories of boyhood adventures colored with social commentary. As a satirical, critical voice of the United States, Twain continued to write and lecture across the country and the world. Mark Twain died in 1910

--March 3 - A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.

--March 4 - Grover Cleveland replaces Chester Alan Arthur as President of the United States.

--June 17 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.

--September 2 - The Rock Springs Massacre occurs in Rock Springs, Wyoming; 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.

--Seattle and Tacoma raids on Asians.

--First skyscraper - Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, USA (10 floors).  

Answer 2

In the U.S. we were involved in a period of industrial growth known as the Gilded Age, in which tycoons such as Rockefeller, Gould and Carnegie made their fortunes while most of the average Americans lived in squalor.  There was a huge population boom as immigrants flooded into Ellis Island, and the new, poor immigrants crowded into tenements.  There was a boom in the muck-racking press, which is the lead-up to the modern tabloid, as well as in rags-to riches stories.

Answer 3

That was the middle of the Gilded Age;