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Big Buisness emerge
Big business is a term that derived as derogatory term for huge corporations and unfair business practice. During the 1800's many people believed it was unfair for these super company's to make so much money. -
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Ulysses S. Grant Presidency
Commanded the victorious Union army during the civil war. Known for being an aggressive and strategist leader. Grants primary focus during his presidency was reconstruction. -
Munn v. Illinois
A case in which the U.S. government upheld the ability of the government to regulate private industry. Started as a response to the National Grange, an association of farmers, by setting a maximum rate that private companies could charge for transport and storage of agricultural products. -
Invention of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor and scientist, received the first patent for a machine shat sends and receives vocal sound -
Battle of Little Bighorn
This was a battle between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. -
Colorado becomes a state
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The Compromise of 1877
An unwritten deal among the congressmen that settled the election of 1876. It removed the last troops from the South and ended theReconstruction Era -
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Rutherford B. Hayes Presidency
He removed the last federal troops from the South. -
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James A. Garfield Presidency
some of his presidential accomplishments include the reestablishment of presidential authority against senatorial courtesy in executive appointment. Was assassinated and killed at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington D.C. by Charles J. Guiteau. -
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Chester A. Arthur Presidency
Became president after President James A. Garfield was assassinated. He embraced the cause of U.S. Civil Service Reform. The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act was the main focus of his administration. -
Civil Service Act
The act mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage. Which basically means permanent federal employment based on merit rather than on political party affiliations -
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Grover Cleveland Presidency
He expanded the number of government positions that were protected by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. Cleveland signed the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which then established the first independent federal agency. -
Haymarket Riots
A labor protest rally turned into a violent protest when a civilian threw a bomb at a police officer. At least 8 people were killed and this was a major set back for the Organized Labor Movement in America. -
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Benjamin Harrison Presidency
Developments of Harrison's administration included unprecedented economic legislation and the creation of the national forest reserves through an amendment to the Land Revision Act of 1891. -
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15 million new immigrants
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Grover Cleveland second Presidency
During his second presidency, disaster hit the nation when the Panic of 1893 produced a severe national depression. He ordered federal soldiers to crush the Pullman strike. He had to resist the annexation of Hawaii and avoid conflict in Cuba. -
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William McKinley Presidency
During McKinley’s presidency, the United States went to war against Spain in 1898 and thereby acquired a global empire. -
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Spanish American War
A war between the U.S. and Spain. The war started when Spain brutally denied Cuba freedom. The U.S. joined the war to help Cuba because the citizens remembered how tough it was to gain independence. The war ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas, and ended with America obtaining territory in the Western Pacific and Latin America. -
The Gold Standard Act
The act was signed by president William McKinley and made gold the only standard for redeeming paper money. Stopped silver being traded for gold within the U.S. monetary system. -
The MAssacure at Wounded Knee
A massacre of hundreds of Lakota Indians by American soldiers. Mostly children and women -
Pollok v Farmers
The court voided portions of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894 that imposed a direct tax on the incomes of American citizens and corporations, following this the federal income tax was deemed unconstitutional -
Invention of the Lightbulb
Thomas Edison patented the first electric lamp with a carbon filament.
