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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
The first transcontinental railroad was built -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act, enacted during the civil war in 1862, provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the us government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. -
Telephone Invented
Telephone was invented and allowed long distance communication -
Industrialization begins to boom
People started making more money by factories -
Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
He was a very weak president and he also played a huge role in politics -
Gilded Age 1877-1890
William McKinley's presidency
Civil War and Reconstruction
creation of Jim Crow laws
the Great California Gold Rush
major religious revivals
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Reconstruction Ends
he republicans had quietly given up their fight for racial equality and blacks' rights in the south -
Light Bulb Invented
When the first light bulb was invented it allowed longer working hours -
3rd Wave of Immigration (
Riding the third wave of immigration. North Carolina was largely untouched by the first two waves of immigration to the United States -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It prevented to Chinese to come to the us -
Pendleton Act
a law which was established that positions within the federal government should be awarded -
Interstate Commerce Act
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Dawes Act
The new policy focused specifically on breaking up reservations by granting land allotments to individual Native Americans. -
Andrew Carnegie Gospel Of Wealth
He wrote a book about how he got rich and that it came out of no where -
Chicago hulf house
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Klondike Gold Rush
People traveled due to the fact there was gold -
Sherman Anti Trust Act
It got rid of all monopolies in the 1890 -
How the other half lives
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Homestead Steel Labor Strike
violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6, 1892 -
Pullman Labor Strike
widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894. -
Theodore Roosevelt
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Assassination of President McKinley
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The Jungle
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Pure food and drug act
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NAACP
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Williams Howard Taft
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Progressive Era
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Woodrow Wilson
