May 12, 2022 · Attorney's fees in Dakota Territory, 1881 The law stipulated how much an attorney might charge for winning a case. Source, p. 17; B. Bakers - Wages by state in U.S. BLS Bulletin #499, p. 148. Blacksmiths and helpers - Average wages By city in Wages in the U.S. and Europe, 1870-1898, p. 670. By state in U.S. BLS Bulletin no. 499, pp. 277-279.
Average retail food prices reported annually from 1890-1970. This one-page table shows the average retail prices for bread, milk, eggs, meats, fruits, vegetables, coffee, beans, sugar, margarine, etc. each year from 1890-1970. See page 193 for data explanation. Food prices and cost for nutritive value, 1894.
Jun 14, 2012 · Do not ignore personal testimony of workers of that era. As I recall, Jack London, famous writer, stated that ca. 1890–age 14– he worked in a pickle factory and other jobs for .10/hr, sometimes working shifts of 24 plus hours, at times making $50/month. 1893 he shoveled coal for $30/month, working horrendous hours, seven days a week, I believe.
1867. The purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America, and became an important step in the United States rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region. Beginning in 1725, when Russian Czar Peter the Great dispatched Vitus Bering to explore the Alaskan ...
1. Nominal average annual wages | ||
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1880 | 545 | 82 |
1885 | 581 | 87 |
1890 | 650 | 98 |
1895 | 665 | 100 |
Value of the minimum wage | Value of the minimum wage | |
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Year | Current dollars | Year |
1955 | $0.75 | 1983 |
1956 | 1.00 | 1984 |
1957 | 1.00 | 1985 |
Cumulative price change | 3,383.24% |
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Inflation in 2022 | 8.26% |
$1 in 1860 | $34.83 in 2022 |
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Shows average daily wages for males and females by occupation, state and country. Source: A Compilation of Wages in Commercial Countries from Official Sources, Volume I and Volume II. Issued as the 15th Annual Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Labor (1900).
30-page booklet reviews overall wage trends from 1800-1899. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Staff Paper #2.
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Civil War delayed the sale, but after the war, Secretary of State William Seward quickly took up a renewed Russian offer and on March 30, 1867, agreed to a proposal from Russian Minister in Washington, Edouard de Stoeckl, to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million.
Signing of the Alaska Treaty, 1867. Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia’s greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain. The looming U.S. Civil War delayed the sale, but after the war, Secretary of State William Seward quickly took up a renewed Russian offer ...
The purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America, and became an important step in the United States rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region.
A realistic mining operation required $1,500 ($42,000) for wood to be burned to melt the ground, along with around $1,000 ($28,000) to construct a dam, $1,500 ($42,000 ) for ditches and up to $600 ($16,800 ) for sluice boxes, a total of $4,600. The attraction of the Klondike to a prospector, however, was that when gold was found, it was often highly concentrated. Some of the creeks in the Klondike were fifteen times richer in gold than those in California, and richer still than those in South Africa. In just two years, for example, $230,000 ($6,440,000) worth of gold was brought up from claim 29 on the Eldorado Creek.
In the resulting Klondike stampede, an estimated 100,000 people tried to reach the Klondike goldfields, of whom only around 30,000 to 40,000 eventually did. It formed the height of the Klondike gold rush from the summer of 1897 until the summer of 1898.
For other gold rushes in Alaska, see Alaska Gold Rush (disambiguation). The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899.
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896; when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors.
In the summer of 1899 , gold was discovered around Nome in west Alaska, and many prospectors left the Klondike for the new goldfields, marking the end of the Klondike Rush. The boom towns declined, and the population of Dawson City fell. Gold mining production in the Klondike peaked in 1903 after heavier equipment was brought in.
On August 16, 1896, an American prospector named George Carmack, his Tagish wife Kate Carmack (Shaaw Tláa), her brother Skookum Jim (Keish), and their nephew Dawson Charlie (K̲áa Goox̱) were travelling south of the Klondike River. Following a suggestion from Robert Henderson, a Canadian prospector, they began looking for gold on Bonanza Creek, then called Rabbit Creek, one of the Klondike's tributaries. It is not clear who discovered the gold: George Carmack or Skookum Jim, but the group agreed to let George Carmack appear as the official discoverer because they feared that authorities would not recognize an indigenous claimant.
Of the estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people who reached Dawson City during the gold rush, only around 15,000 to 20,000 finally became prospectors. Of these, no more than 4,000 struck gold and only a few hundred became rich. By the time most of the stampeders arrived in 1898, the best creeks had all been claimed, either by the long-term miners in the region or by the first arrivals of the year before. The Bonanza, Eldorado, Hunker and Dominion Creeks were all taken, with almost 10,000 claims recorded by the authorities by July 1898; a new prospector would have to look further afield to find a claim of his own.
William P. Frye, a senator from Maine. Cushman Kellogg Davis, a senator from Minnesota. George Gray, a senator from Delaware. Whitelaw Reid , a former diplomat and a former nominee for Vice President. John Hay , Secretary of State, signing the memorandum of ratification on behalf of the United States.
They were the Sultanate of Maguindanao, the Sultanate of Sulu, and the Confederation of sultanates in Lanao . The texts of the Spanish and English copies of the treaties and agreements with these Moro sultanates all claimed that sovereignty was handed over to the Spanish Empire and the United States, but the local language's copy of the texts always emphasized the sovereignty and independence of the sultanates and actually included provisions of tribute (similar deal to the British leasing Hong Kong from the Qing Dynasty) to be paid to the rulers by the Spanish and the Americans for a handful of lightly garrisoned coastal outposts in the sultanates. Suzerainty, not sovereignty, was the relationship between Spain and these three sultanates and it could be argued that the Spanish Empire had no right to include Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago in the Treaty of Paris. The United States even confirmed during the Kiram-Bates Treaty negotiations that Spain never had sovereignty. The United States fought long, brutal wars against the Moros in the sultanates from 1899-1913. They annexed the Sultanate of Maguindanao and the Confederation of sultanates in Lanao in 1905 after the Battle of the Malalag River and then annexed the Sultanate of Sulu in 1913 after the Battle of Bud Bagsak
The Treaty of Paris marked the end of the Spanish Empire, apart from some small holdings in Northern Africa and several islands and territories around the Gulf of Guinea, also in Africa. It marked the beginning of the United States as a world power. Many supporters of the war opposed the treaty, which became one of the major issues in ...
Work on the final draft of the treaty began on November 30. It was signed on December 10 , 1898. The next step was ratification. In Madrid, the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislature, rejected it, but Maria Christina signed it as she was empowered to do by a clause in the Spanish constitution.
George F. Hoar ( MA - R) (left), Eugene Hale ( ME - R) (center), and George G. Vest ( MO - D) (right) led the opposition to the ratification of the Treaty of Paris within the Senate. In the US Senate, there were four main schools of thought on US imperialism that influenced the debate on the treaty's ratification.
The cession of the Philippines involved a compensation of $20 million from the United States to Spain. The treaty came into effect on April 11, 1899, when the documents of ratification were exchanged. It was the first treaty negotiated between the two governments since the 1819 Adams-OnĂs Treaty . The Treaty of Paris marked the end ...
Background. The Spanish–American War began on April 25, 1898, due to a series of escalating disputes between the two nations, and ended on December 10, 1898, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. It resulted in Spain's loss of its control over the remains of its overseas empire.
1872 Charlotte E. Ray, daughter of leaders of New York’s underground railroad, [21] becomes the first African American woman lawyer in the United States. She had been working as a teacher at Howard since 1869 and applied to Howard’s law school under the name “C.E. Ray.”.
1870 Ada H. Kepley, of Illinois, graduates from the Union College of Law in Chicago. She is the first woman lawyer to graduate from a law school. [17] 1870 Esther McQuigg Morris became the first woman judge in the nation when she was appointed as the justice of the peace in South Pass City, Wyoming.
In the spring of 1899, six women received their law degrees. [51] 1897 Lutie A. Lytle , an African-American attorney, becomes the first woman law professor in the nation when she joins the faculty of the Central Tennessee College of Law (now Walden University – a historically black college).
1970 The Women’s Rights Law Reporter, a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Rutgers School of Law – Newark is founded by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The journal is the first legal periodical in the United States to focus exclusively on the field of women’s rights law. [84] .
in the Legal Profession. By Angela Nicole Johnson [1] 1638 Margaret Brent became the executor of the estate of Lord Calvert, governor of the Maryland Colony. She was involved in more than 100 court cases in Maryland and Virginia [2] .