2. Significant Events 1869 Prohibition Party founded Chapter 21 1875 First Farmers’ Alliance founded 1881 President James A. Garfield assassinated 1887 Interstate Commerce Commission created 1889 First Pan-American Congress 1890 Wyoming enters Union as first state to give women the right to vote 1892 Populist Party formed 1896 William McKinley elected president 1898 War with Spain 1909 NAACP founded
3. Showing the World Chapter 21 Columbian Exposition, 1893 Library of Congress