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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern United States and the Western United States -
The Invention of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell created the first telephone. though it is not like our phones today, it got the job done! -
Battle of Little Big horn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was also known as Custer’s Last Stand, was the most ferocious battle of the Sioux Wars. Colonel George Custer and his men never stood a fighting chance. -
38th state
Colorado became the 38th state in the United States. -
the compromise of 1877
It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
Hayes became the 19th President of the United States. -
The Great Railroad Strike
workers at the B&O station at Martins-burg, West Virginia, responded to the announcement of 10% of their wages were cuts by uncoupling the locomotives in the station, confining them in the roundhouse, and declaring that no trains would leave Martins-burg unless the cut was returned to the normal pay. -
Edison and the Light bulb
Thomas Edison displays his lights and generators. -
James Garfield
James Garfield became the 20th president. -
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull surrenders to the United States Army, ending major Native American resistance to white settlers -
James Garfield death
James A. Garfield died from being shot on July 2nd and died September 19th from the injures. -
Custer Arthur
Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st President of the United States -
The Chinese exclusion Act
Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese immigrants from entering the country. -
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland became the 22nd president -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes -
The Dawes General Allotment Act
the Dawes General Allotment Act split Indian tribes into individual family units -
Looking backwards
Edward Bellamy publishes "Looking Backward" -
Benjamin Harrison
Harrison becomes the 23rd president -
North Dakota became a state
North Dakota was admitted to Union. -
the iron strike
The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers strikes at one of Andrew Carnegie's steel mills. -
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the Pullman strike
Workers at the Pullman rail car factory strike. They are aided by the American Railway Union -
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William McKinley
McKinley became the 25th president -
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Philippine-American and Spanish-American Wars
These two wars served in helping establish the United States as a World Power. -
Open Doors
passed! calling for all Western Markets to have equal access to Chinese markets.