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James Garfield inaugurated as president.
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The same year James Garfield turned president, he was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau.
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Clara Barton was a hospital nurse in the Civil War. She then went on to create the Red Cross.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was created. This act prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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Grocer Cleveland is inaugurated as President.
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The Dawes Act is created. The Act authorized the President to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
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North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington become states.
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Idaho and Wyoming become their own states.
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Custer and U.S. Calvary go to push the Indians off of Wounded Knee Creek. Custer and his men are killed.
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Economic depression sweeps the U.S. and affects every part of the economy.
