Important Events in US History from 1880 to 1914

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    Rutherford B. Hayes is President

  • James Garfield is President

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    Construction of the Panama Canal

    The French first started building it in 1881 and the Americans finished it in 1904
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    Chester Arthur is President

  • Founding of the Tuskegee Institute

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    Grover Cleveland is President

  • Founding of the AFL (American Federation of Labor)

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    Benjamin Harrison is President

  • Homestead Strike

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    Grover Cleveland is President again

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

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    William McKinley is President

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    Spanish American War

  • Annexation of Hawaii

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    The Phillipino American War

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    Theodore Roosevelt is President

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

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    William H. Taft is President

  • Creation of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage

  • Woodrow Wilson is President

    He is President from 1913-1921.