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YMCA founded
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Samuel Grompers is born
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Sioux Wars start
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Louis Sullivan is born
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Central Park opened this year by Frederick Olmsted
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John Dewey is born
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Ida B. Wells is born
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First of Black Codes passed
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Sharecropping becomes popular
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term "carpetbaggers" starts
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Salvation Army founded this year
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Period: to
Radical Recpnstruction
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Freedmen's Bureau founded
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13th Amendment ratified
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National Labor Union founded
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Famers' Alliances begin to appear
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Tenure of Office Act passed
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Seward's Folly and the Purchase of Alaska
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14th Amendment ratified
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First of Granger Laws passed
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Edwin Stanton dies
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Knights of Labor hold first Labor Day in US
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Standard Oil Company founded this year
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Social Gospel becomes prominent
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15th Amendment passed
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Chief Joseph inherits leadership
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Crédit Mobilier of America
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"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" published
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Women's Christian Temperance Union founded
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Crime of '73
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First of Jim Crow laws passed
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Chautauqua Movement begins
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Joseph Pullitzer buys first newspaper
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The Grange movement occurs this year
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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Several Molly Maguires are hanged
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Munn vs. Illinois
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Compromise of 1877
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Bland Allison Act
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Boss Tweed dies
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Bread and Butter Unionism
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"A Century of Dishonor" published this year
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Tuskegee School Founded by Booker T. Washington
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Pendleton Act
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Settlement House Movement Begins - 1884
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Helen Hunt Jackson dies
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American Federation of Labor
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Haymarket Affair
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Dawes' Act
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Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward" is published
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"Gospel of Wealth" published
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William James publishes "The Principles of Psychology"
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New Immigrants start in 1890; Old immigrants exist
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Sherman Anti Trust Fund Act
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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"The Influence of Sea Power on History" is published
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Wounded Knee Massacre occurs
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Frontier Thesis proposed this year
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John Peter Altgeld becomes governpr of Illinois
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Pullman Strike
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Coxey's Army marches
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Atlanta Compromise
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Peoples' Party
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Cross of Gold Speech
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William Jennings Bryan runs for presidency
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Henry George dies
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Spanish American War begins
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Horatio Alger dies
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Boxer Rebellion
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Anti Saloon League becoming popular
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Renamed the "New York Journal"
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Thomas Nast dies