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Alexander Graham Bell places first call on Telephone
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Battle of Little Bighorn
US troops led by Chester A. Arthur defeated by Sioux and Cheyenne -
End of Reconstruction with passing of compromise of 1877
Southern Democrats allowed Hayes electoral votes be counted in exchange to him removing troops from the South. This was known as the Compromise of 1877 which ended Reconstruction -
US vs. Crazy horse at Battle on Wolf Mountain
Crazy Horse took his final stand against US army -
Jim Crow laws went into effect
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President Rutherford Hayes is in office
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The Gilded Age
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Henry Flipper Graduates West Point as first African American to do so
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Thomas Edison invents Phonograph
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Garfield takes office
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"Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull surrenders to US federal troops"
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"Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company."
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"The Gunfight at OK Corral Oct 26 Gunfight at the OK Corral"
most famous battle between lawmen and cowboys -
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Chester A. Arthur Takes office
Arthur takes over after Garfield is assassinated -
Jesse James is killed
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Civil Service Commission Created
This was created by passing the Pendleton Act -
Statue of Liberty given to the United States
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Grover Cleveland takes office
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"Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war"
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American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
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Benjamin Harrison takes office
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Sherman Antitrust Act Passed
Allowing free competition -
President Benjamin Harrison signed clean food and drug act
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Wounded Knee South Dakota Massacre
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"General Electric Company formed by merger of Thomas Edison's General Electric Company with Thomson-Houston Electric Company, arranged by J. P. Morgan and incorporated in NY"
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Grover Cleveland takes office again
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Panic of 1893
"A large crash in the NY stock exchange" -
Polio outbreak in the US
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William McKinley takes office
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Spanish-American War
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Battle of Manilla Bay
US forces fought against Spain's and won decidedly -
Treaty of Paris
Ended Spanish-American War