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The rise of Chicago as a major city within the United States, particularly in the area of meat-packing
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The transference of over 25 million immigrants to the United States
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Publication of some of Friedrich Nietzsche's most important works, including The Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Genealogy of Morals.
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The destruction of Custer's 7th cavalry division by a group of native Americans led by the Sioux tribe
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The refusal of rail workers to complete tasks necessary for the continuance of the rail line due to a reduction in pay.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli passes an official act in Parliament to announce Queen Victoria's rule over the Indian subcontinent
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Inception of populist agrarian group Farmer's Alliance in Texas
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The surrender of Crazy Horse and a group of Oglala Sioux to the United States military
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Edison demonstrates DC power for several investors
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Begun by alterations to product creation and machining practiced by McCormick
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British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli sends British troops and ships to Egypt in order to quell local resistance
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The construction of the New York's first power station at Pearl Street
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An act passed by the United States Congress in an attempt to stem all Chinese immigration
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An act passed by the United States Congress in order to reduce the amount of immigrants that are unable to support themselves
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A competition between two El Paso ranches regarding their comprehension of certain skills
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The beginning of the infamous Wild West show that would include such types as Chief Sitting Bull and Annie Oakley
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The invention of the first true gas-operated fully automatic machine gun
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The official acquisition of the king's own private estate and plantations in the Congo region
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The true inception of the imperialist movements that would later become known as the Scramble for Africa
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Hundreds of thousands of workers walk of the Gould rail-lines in response to the firing of a member of the Knights of Labor
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Bombing and death of eight Chicago policemen in a McCormick riot
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A law passed by the American government that split Indian reservations into separate homesteads
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The creation of the first movies and later films
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The rise of the Ghost Dance belief and the creator of said belief Wovoka
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The publication of Andrew Carnegie's belief that it is the obligation of the rich to care for the poor
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The murder of chief Sitting Bull during a botched arrest by the United States military
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The slaughter of hundreds of innocents by United States cavalry at the creek of Wounded Knee
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An attempt by the United States Congress to break up the variety of trusts that began to fill the nation.
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An attempt by the United States Congress to break up the variety of trusts that began to fill the nation.
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Battle between strikers and Pinkertons at a Carnegie steel mill
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A recession that struck the United States economy during the 1890s
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The World's Columbian Exposition in the recently founded city of Chicago, changed radically by the railroad
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A thesis by the young historian Frederick Jackson Turner that outlined the importance of the West in American psyche
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Botched and rigged trial of Franco-Jewish military officer Alfred Dreyfus.
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A series of mergers in the late 1800s that shook the industrial economy of the United States
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The rise of populist speaker and Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan
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The election of the Republican presidential candidate William McKinley
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War between the Spanish and the rising American Empire over Spanish involvement in the Caribbean and the Philippines
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War between the Afrikaners of South Africa and the British
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The proposal of a policy by the United States that would allow continual trade access to China
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The brutal torture and murder of and African-American by the name of Sam Hose
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The fight by Filipino insurrectionists against their new American oppressors
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The first serious foreign intervention in the series of insurrections known as the Boxer Rebellion