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A period of great wealth and outward appearances.
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General Custer loses his life and the Sioux claim victory.
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The U.S. first nationwide labor strike
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Henry George writes Progress and Poverty.
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McCormick hired a production manager who had overseen the manufacturing of Colt firearms to transform his system of production.
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The company had produces twenty-one thousand machines.
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The Knights of Labor has over seven hundred thousand members.
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Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers strike at one of Carnegie's steel mills.
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The United States becomes the world’s leading manufacturing nation.