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  Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
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  This was apart of the American- Indian battles, the Indians were fighting for there ancestral lands.
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  Rutherford B. Hayes won the election of 1877 over Samuel J. Tilden. He was the 19th president.
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  This strike started in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on account of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cutting the wages.
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  James A. Garfield was the 20th president, however, he died shortly after the election by assassination.
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  Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president, after the death of James Garfield.
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  Grover Cleveland, former mayor of Buffalo, became the 22nd president.
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  A labor protest happening near Chicago's Haymarket square became a riot after a bomb was thrown at a police officer.
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  Benjamin Harrison became the 23rd president, after Grover Cleveland.
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  The Sherman Antitrust Act outlawed trusts, monopolies, and cartels.
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  Workers at Carnegie Steel protested against wage cuts.
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  Cleveland holds another term of presidency.
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  A widespread railroad strike and boycott.
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  William McKinley becomes the 25th president. Towards the end of his presidency, he was assassinated in 1901
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  This war between Spain and America was fought over the independence of Cuba.