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Jim Crow Laws
segregation procedures post ratification of 13th amendment -
Battle of Little Bighorn
As a response to the US force to move, the souix led by Sitting BIUll defeat colonel Custer and the US army -
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
As a result of cutting wages of workers for the third time in a year, striking workers would not allow any of the trains, mainly freight trains, to roll until this third wage cut was revoked. -
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Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes
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Knights of Labor publicise efforts
The Knights of Labor was a labor union that brought together workers of different religions, races and genders and helped them all create a bond and unify all for the same cause. -
Thomas Edison creates lightbulb
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Tuskeegee Institute Founded
Tuskegee University is a private, historically black university in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was established by Lewis Adams and Booker T. Washington -
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Presidency of Chester A. Arthur
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Presidency of James A. Garfield
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The Chinese Exclusion Act
denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the
country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate. -
Immigration Act
passed in August 1882 denying admission to people who were not
able to support themselves and those, such as paupers, people with mental illnesses, or convicted criminals, who might otherwise threaten the security of the nation. -
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show is founded
Annie Oakley "little miss sure shot" -
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First presidency of S.Grover Cleveland
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YMCA formed
society afraid of rising woman influence and created mens groups to promote "muscular christianity" -
Dawes Act
allotted lands in the west to be split up among the Native tribes -
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Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
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Yellow Wallpaper
written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman- attacked the concept of
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Southern Horrors
Ida B Wells publishes book describing the horrors of lynching in the south -
Edison Company produced 75 short films
via phonograph -
Rough Riders
fighters led by Theodore Roosevelt to fight in the Spanish American War -
Treaty of Paris 1898
brought an end to the Spanish American War and made the US a world power by giving influence in central America -
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Spanish American War
a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the
U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence as a result, America became a world power