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Granger founded, Secretary of State Seward negotiates the purchase of alaska
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Granger laws begin to regulate railroad shipping rates
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Rutherford b Hayes elected president, Great uprising of 1877
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Henry George publishes progress and poverty
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President James a Garfield assassinated; Chester a Arthur becomes president
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Chinese exclusion act
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Pendleton act passed
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Grover Cleveland elected president
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Interstate commerce act creates the interstate commerce commission
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Edward Bellamy publishes looking backward, colored farmers alliance formed, Benjamin Harris elected president
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National farmers alliance formex
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Sherman silver purchase act, McKinley tariff enacted, national American woman suffrage association formed
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Populist party formed
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Coeur d alene miners strike, homestead strike, ida b wells begins crusade against lyching
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Western federation of miners formed, financial panic and depression, worlds Colombian exhibition opens in Chicago
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“Comets army” marches in Washington DC, Pullman strike and boycott
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Plessy vs Ferguson upholds segregation, William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan for president
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Singles tariff again raises import duties to an all time high
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Eugene v debs helps found social Democratic Party, Hawaii is annexed, Spanish American way begins, anti imperialist league formed, Wilmington nc massacre
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Cumming v Richmond county board of education sanctions segregated education, guerilla war state’s in the Philippines
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Gold standard act and “expansion”