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Railroad workers campaign fro higher wages across the entire country. The campaign was not successful, but it was a stepping stone for the first labor unions to be formed.
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Edison invents a working lightbulb!
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Henry George writes a best seller titled, "Progress and Poverty".
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The Sitting Bulls end their fighting with the United States, which ended resistance to Native American settlement reserves.
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Congresses passes an act that prohibited Japanese people from entering the country.
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The Immigration Act was passed by Congress. This limited immigrants who were unable to support themselves, the mentally ill and criminals from entering into the United States.
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President Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States.
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This act aided in stopping discriminatory pricing within businesses.
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This act split indian tribal groups into families, rather than a whole tribe in one living quarter.
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President Benjamin Harrison is elected President of the United States of America.
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Jacob Riis publishes his controversial and eye opening book, titiles "How The Other Half Lives".
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Union workers strike at one of Andrew Carnegies steel mills. Military is called in and ended up disarming the unions.
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Frederick Turner publishes his thesis.
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Pullman railway workers and the American Railway Union come together to go on strike. The strike is broken up when their leader, Eugene Debs, is arrested.
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The Supreme Court ruled that discrimination was alright as long as it was "separate but equal".
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Congress passes this act, which ends the argument of whether the United States would have a gold standard or not.