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General Armstrong Custer is defeated by Chief Crazy Horse, Chief Gall, and Chief Two Moons at the Battle of Little Bighorn, known as "Custer's Last Stand."
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The Compromise of 1877
Results in end to military intervention in the South and the fall of the last radical governments; restores "home rule" in the South. -
The Desert Land Act is enacted by Congress
The act offers any person paying 25 cents an acre an entire section, or 640 acres, if he irrigates some part of his land claim within the next three years. -
Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th president
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Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Railroad unions demand better working conditions and protest recent 10 percent cuts in pay. Strikes spread to other railroads and soon, all large cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific are pulled into the struggle. The strike lasts over two weeks and is finally settled by Federal Troops sent in by President Hayes. -
The Timber and Stone act is passed
Permits the cutting of timber on public land to increase the acreage of farmland. -
The population if the United States has reached a population of 50,100,000
6,600,000 are foreign-born. -
Andrew Carnegie has a monopoly of the steel industry.
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Thomas Edison establishes Edison Illuminating Company
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James Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th president
Chester A. Arthur becomes vice president. -
James Garfield is assassinated by Charles Guiteau
Chester A. Arthur becomes president. -
The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States is formed.
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Chinese Exclusion Act passed
Excludes Chinese immigration to the United States -
Brooklyn Bridge is completed
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The worldís first true "skyscraper" is completed
A ten-story building called the Home Life Insurance building, designed by William Le Baron Jenne, is constructed in Chicago. -
Grover Cleveland is elected President
Thomas Hendricks is vice president. -
Haymarket Square Riot
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The American Federation of Labor is organized by Samuel Gompers.
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North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington are all admitted to statehood
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Benjamin Harrison is elected 23rd president of the United States
Levi Morton becomes vice president -
Sherman Anti-trust Act is passed
Makes illegal "every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations." -
Wyoming enters the Union as the first state to have women's suffrage.
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Thomas Edison receives a patent for his motion picture camera
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Ellis Island opens
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The Homestead Steel Strike erupts at Carnegie's Steel mill in Pennsylvani
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The Panic of 1893
Four years of deep depression begin with the crash of the New York Stock Market -
President Cleveland is inaugurated for a second term
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McKinley wins the presidential election
Garret Hobart is vice president -
Plessy v. Ferguson case upholds the "separate but equal" doctrine.
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McKinley wins a second term as president.
Theodore Roosevelt is vice president