1876-1900

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    The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern United States and the Western United States

  • The Invention of the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell created the first telephone. though it is not like our phones today, it got the job done!

  • Battle of Little Big horn

    The Battle of the Little Bighorn was also known as Custer’s Last Stand, was the most ferocious battle of the Sioux Wars. Colonel George Custer and his men never stood a fighting chance.

  • 38th state

    Colorado became the 38th state in the United States.

  • the compromise of 1877

    It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.

  • Rutherford B. Hayes

    Hayes became the 19th President of the United States.

  • The Great Railroad Strike

    workers at the B&O station at Martins-burg, West Virginia, responded to the announcement of 10% of their wages were cuts by uncoupling the locomotives in the station, confining them in the roundhouse, and declaring that no trains would leave Martins-burg unless the cut was returned to the normal pay.

  • Edison and the Light bulb

    Thomas Edison displays his lights and generators.

  • James Garfield

    James Garfield became the 20th president.

  • Sitting Bull

    Sitting Bull surrenders to the United States Army, ending major Native American resistance to white settlers

  • James Garfield death

    James A. Garfield died from being shot on July 2nd and died September 19th from the injures.

  • Custer Arthur

    Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st President of the United States

  • The Chinese exclusion Act

    Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese immigrants from entering the country.

  • Grover Cleveland

    Cleveland became the 22nd president

  • The Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes

  • The Dawes General Allotment Act

    the Dawes General Allotment Act split Indian tribes into individual family units

  • Looking backwards

    Edward Bellamy publishes "Looking Backward"

  • Benjamin Harrison

    Harrison becomes the 23rd president

  • North Dakota became a state

    North Dakota was admitted to Union.

  • the iron strike

    The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers strikes at one of Andrew Carnegie's steel mills.
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    the Pullman strike

    Workers at the Pullman rail car factory strike. They are aided by the American Railway Union
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    William McKinley

    McKinley became the 25th president
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    Philippine-American and Spanish-American Wars

    These two wars served in helping establish the United States as a World Power.

  • Open Doors

    passed! calling for all Western Markets to have equal access to Chinese markets.