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Phonography and Electric light system invented
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First official patent for telephone
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Railroad Strike
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Formation for Socialist Labor Party
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Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce surrendered
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Bland-Allison Act
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First elevated railroads developed
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James Garfield elected President
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Tuskegee Institute established
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Chester Arthur became President after Garfield's death
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James Garfield shot by Charles Guiteau
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James Garfield died from gunshot wound
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Charles Guiteau hung for murder of President James Garfield
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Civil Service Act (Pendleton Civil Service Act)
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Grover Cleveland elected President
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Alaska bought from Russia for 7.2 million dollars
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Colored Farmers' National Alliance formed
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Geronimo died
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Sitting Bull surrendered at Fort Buford, Montana
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Haymarket Square Incident
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Dawes Act (Dawes General Allotment Act)
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Benjamin Harrison elected President
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North and South Dakotas, Montana, and Washington declared States of America
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McKinley Tariff Act
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Dependent Pension Act
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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Idaho and Wyoming declared States of American
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Battle of Wounded Knee
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Homestead Steel Strike
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Grover Cleveland elected President for 2nd Term
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Ellis Island opened
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Panic/Depression of 1893
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Pullman Strike
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American Federation of Labor formed
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William McKinley elected President
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Court case Plessy v Ferguson
Resulted in Jim Crow laws -
W.E.B. DuBois began his teaching career
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Western Federation of Miners formed
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Boston opened short underground railroad
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Treaty of Paris
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War of 1898
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Period: to
Philippine-American War