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The Civil Service Reform Act (called "the Pendleton Act") is an 1883 federal law that created the United States Civil Service Commission. [13] It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called "spoils system". [13]
Events from the year 1886 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government ... U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1877 to 1883 (born 1815) July 16 – Ned Buntline ...
August 16 – Herschel Vespasian Johnson, United States Senator from Georgia from 1863 until 1865. (born 1812) August 19 – James Seddon, 4th Confederate States Secretary of War (born 1815) August 24 – Ouray, Ute leader (b. c. 1833)
The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani that took place on January 17, 1893, on the island of Oʻahu, and was led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents (five Americans, one Scotsman, and one German [5]) and six Hawaiian Kingdom subjects of American descent in Honolulu.
"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). [2]
The United States was first referred to as a superpower in 1944; In July 1945, the United States conducted the first nuclear test, and one month later became the first and only country to use nuclear weapons in war; Collapse of Nazi Germany; Fall of Japanese Empire and Italian Empire; End of Fascism in Europe and Japanese militarism in Asia ...
William Thompson Price (June 17, 1824 – December 6, 1886) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He represented Wisconsin's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1883 until his death, and was succeeded by his son, Hugh H. Price.
United States v. Harris, 106 U.S. 629 (1883), or the Ku Klux Case, was a case in which the US Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional for the federal government to penalize crimes such as assault and murder in most circumstances. [1] The Court declared that only state governments have the power to penalize those crimes.