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The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was a formal document that officially ended the American Revolution. Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and John Adams went to Paris to negotiate of representatives of the King of England. In this treaty the Crown recognized American independence. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
At 29 years old Alexander Graham Bell got a patent for his new invention: the telephone. He took much of his inspiration to create the telephone from Samuel F.B. Morse who created the single wire telegraphy system. -
Compromise of 1877
It was an agreement between the Southern Democrats and those who were allies of Rutherford Hayes. The agreement settled the 1876 election and it was the event that ended the Reconstruction Era -
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The Great Railroad Strike
They were a sequence of violent strikes and riots around the nation. The strikes were a result of the wage cuts by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, this was the 2nd wage cut in eight months. The country was in their fourth year of an economic depression so tensions where very high. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
It was the first law restricting immigration in the United States. The act enacted a ten year ban on Chinese workers immigrating to the U.S. -
The Dawes Act
It was a US law that distributed Indian Reservation land among the Native American tribes. The tribes who lived on the land would become U.S citizens, and were subject to state, federal, and local laws. -
The Wounded Knee Massacre
It was the massacre of approximately 300 Lakota Indians by the U.S Army, in the Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. It was a climax of the U.S. trying to constantly surpress the Plain Indians.