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Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was defeated at Little Bighorn by Native Americans.
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Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner created Warner Bros.
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Due to the stringent work conditions, workers across the country went on strike.
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In Lampasas, Texas, many farmers met to form this union to try and restore economic power.
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Edison introduced his new research into electric power and lighting
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Congress suspended the immigration of all Chinese laborers.
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Congress passed this act to deny admission to people who were not able to support themselves.
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Buffalo Bill created his traveling show of cowboys, Indians, sharpshooters, cavalrymen, and rangers.
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In Pecos, Texas, cowboys from the Hash Knife and the W Ranch competed in roping and riding contests which became officially known as the first rodeo.
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Thousands of workers struck across the country and specifically in Chicago, there were police forces who killed civilians and a bomb which killed several policemen.
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Congress passed this act to separate Native Americans onto their own individual allotments of land.
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One of Buffalo Bill's workers went on to create his own show and became Bill's only competitor.
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Edison innovated the rolling of film.
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Wokova, a Northern Paiute prophet had a revelation and created the religious ceremony known as the Ghost Dance to let Native Americans know to not hurt anymore people and to always do right.
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On this date, James B. Weaver was nominated as a presidential candidate at the populist party's first national convention.
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The worst period of economic depression that the country had seen up to this point.
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Turner came out with his theory of American history at the American Historical Association's World's Columbian Exposition.
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At the Democratic Party's national convention, William Jennings Bryan won over the crowd as well as the presidential candidacy.
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William McKinley was elected president.
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The U.S. aquired Hawaii after the Spanish-American War
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This treaty officially ended the Spanish-American War.
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John Hay introduced this policy which said that Western powers would have equal access to Chinese markets.
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This league was founded to protest American imperial actions.
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Congress passed this act to set the nation's monetary policy.
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American troops stopped this rebellion that opposed foreign trade with China.