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  Nineteenth President of the United States who Helped reform the nation after the toll of the civil war. His political party was Republican.
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  A Native American Victory over the U.S. Army in the battle between George Custer and his men against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
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  The Great Railroad Strike was a failed strike of railroad workers wanting higher wages. It lead to the creation of the first labor unions.
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  Edison and his team of researchers patented the first electric lamp with a carbon filament light bulb.
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  Congress pass the Chinese Exclusion Act which kept chinese immigrants from entering into the country after mass migration.
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  Jacob Riis publishes his work describing the harsh conditions people were living in the New York slums.
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  Most famous and bloodiest battle of the Spanish-American war. The Americans won the battle near santiago, Cuba. Later, President Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the Medal of Honor.
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  This act made Gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money and prevented bimetallism. The act was signed into law by President WIlliam Mckinley.