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Bessemer perfects process for steel
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federal land grants to railroads
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Period: to
Asian immigration in the U.S.
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Drake successfully drills for oil
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Homestead Act
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Period: to
exodusters to Kansas
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Morill Act
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Credit Mobilier formed
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13th Amendment ratified
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Reconstruction of the South
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Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated
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Andrew Johnson becomes president
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14th Amendment ratified
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Grange founded
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typewrite (Sholes)
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Tweed Ring (Tammany Hall)
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Ulysses S. Grant elected president
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The Transcontinental Railroad
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15th Amendment ratified
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Jim Crow Laws
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European Immigration in the U.S. (western and northern europe)
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Standard Oil formed
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street cars and electric subways introduced
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barbed wire (Glidden)
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Rutherford B. Hayes elected president
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Menlo Park established
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telephone (Bell)
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Munn v. Illinois
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The Great Strike (B&O)
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mechanical reaper (McCormick)
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lightbulb (patented (Edison))
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Pullman sleeper car introduced
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James A. Garfield elected president
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Chester A. Arthur becomes president
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Brooklyn Bridge completed
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skyscrapers emerge
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timezones organized world-wide
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Grover Cleveland elected president (1st time)
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Social Gospel Movement
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bonzanza farming
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American Federation of Labor (Gompers)
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Haymarket Affair
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Benjamin Harrison elected president
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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European Immigration in the U.S. (eastern and southern)
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Populist Party founded
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Homestead Strike
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Ellis Island opens
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Grover Cleveland elected president (2nd term)
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Pullman Strike
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American Railway Union (Debs)
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William McKinley elected president
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end of Populism
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Carnegie steel is world's largest
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Carnegie is first billionaire
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Industrial Workers of the World (Haywood)
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Uprising of the 20,000
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Angel Island opens
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Triangle Factory Fire
