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Hayes becomes the 19th president
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Texas farmers form the first agricultural union.
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Beginning of the first labor unions- railroad workers go on strike for higher wages and better conditions
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Edison displays the light bulb to reporters and investors
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Garfield becomes the 20th president of the US
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Arthur becomes the 21st President of the US
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Sitting Bull surrenders to the US Army, ending the major resistance of the Native Americans to white settlers
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This Act limited immigrants that could not support themselves, the mentally ill, and criminals from entering the US
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This Act barred Chinese immigrants from entering the US
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Buffalo Bill starts his Wild West show to romanticize the West to the rest of the population
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Cleveland becomes the 22nd President of the US
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nationwide strike to gain a eight-hour workday
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This aided in stopping discriminatory pricing in businesses
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This act spilt Indian tribes into individual family units rather than single tribal units
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Harrison becomes the 23rd president of the US
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limits business practices used by monopolies to limit competition
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Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers strikes at one of Andrew Carnegie's steel mills. The state militia is called in to break the strike, which in turn destroyed the union.
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Strike at the Pullman rail car factory aided by the American Railway Union.
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Supreme Court ruled that discrimination was legal was long as separate facilities were equal
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McKinley becomes the 25th President of the US
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The US acquires the territory of Hawaii
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helped established US as a world power
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Calls for all Western markets to have equal access to the Chinese markets
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officially puts the US on the gold standard