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Knights of Labor Founded
An organization made to fight for workers rights -
Big box telephone invented
Alexander Graham Bell invented one of the first commercially available phones -
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Violent strikes that were caused by Baltimore and Ohio railroad wage cuts -
Skyscraper invented
William Le Barron Jenney designed the edifice the first world's skyscraper -
Panic of 1893
Economic depression that occurred because of the panic on the stock market after the collapse of the Philadelphia and reading railroad and the national cordage company -
Bryan's National Tour
William Jennings Bryan went on a national speaking tour promoting the free coinage of silver -
William McKinley's presidential election begin
One of many elections William Jennings Bryan lost -
Gold Standard Act passed
Put US on the gold standard and ended the monetary policy debate