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Ulysees S. Grant - President
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Telephone Invention
On this date, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. -
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Rutherford B. Hayes - President
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Great Railroad Strike of 1877
This strike began in West Virginia after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time within one year. -
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James A. Garfield - President
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Chester A. Arthur - President
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Brooklyn Bridge Opens
The Brooklyn Bridge is opened in New York during a time of increasing industrialism. -
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Grover Cleveland - President
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Benjamin Harrison - President
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Wounded Knee Massecre
U.S. Cavalry killed nearly 150 Sioux at Wounded Knee in South Dakota. -
1893 Depression
Tow large corporations collapsed causing the stock market to crash -
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Grover Cleveland - President
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William McKinley - President
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Spanish American War
A short war during the American flirtation with Imperialism.