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Morrill act authorizes land grant colleges
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Knights of labor founded
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Standard oil founded
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Financial panic brings severe depression
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Baseballs national league founded, Alexander graham bell patents the telephone
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Thomas Edison invents the incandescent bulb, depression ends
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Tuskegee institute found
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Peak of immigration to the United States in the 19th century, Chinese exclusion act passed, standard oil trust founded
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William graham sumner published the social Darwinist classic “what social classes owe to each other”
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Campaigns for 8hour workday peak, haymarket riot and massacre discredit the knights of labor, American federation of labor founded
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Sherman antitrust act passed
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Stock market panic precipitates severe depression
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Coney Island opens
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Rural free delivery begins
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Andrew carnegies “gospel of wealth” recommends honesty and fair dealing
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US steel corporation formed