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Alexander Graham Bell won the first United States patent for the telephone.
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Rutherford B. Hayes is elected as the 19th President of the United States.
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The end of reconstruction was brought on by the presidential election of 1876.
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The Great Railroad Strike was the first major railroad strike and first general strike in U.S. history.
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James A. Garfield was elected as the 20th president of the United states.
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James A. Garfield was assassinated in Elberon , Long Branch, New Jersey.
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Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st President of the United States after the assassination of James A. Garfield.
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Grover Cleveland was elected as the 22nd president of the United States.
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This was a domestic massacre of several hundred Lakota Indians, where almost half were women and children, killed by soldiers of the United States Army.
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The game of basketball was invented by James Naismith, he came up with his game to help encourage his students to be active while they were stuck inside due to the winter.