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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Stowe published
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Supreme Court denies citizenship to African Americans
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Although Charles Darwin published his book in 1859 it didn't really soar until the 1870s.
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GOLD
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Abraham Lincoln elected President
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GOLD
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William Jennings Bryan
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Civil war begins
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Gold
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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
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Ku Klux Klan is formed in Tennessee to maintain "white supremacy"
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U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
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GOLD
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas A. Edison invents the phonograph
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Was the response of the workers due to the cut of their wages.
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"The Association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times," said Henry George in his book called progress and poverty.
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Thomas A. Edison invents the light bulb
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Henry Ford builds his first car
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The failure of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 convinced workers of he need to organize. Thus the knights of Labor was created. Had success in the 1880s.
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By 1886, the nights had over seven hundred thousand members
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1886, the campaign for an eight-hour day, long a rallying cry that united American laborers, culminated in a national strike on May 1, 1886.
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Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers struck at one of Carnegie’s steel mills in Homestead, Pennsylvania.
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The Populists nominated former Civil War general James B. Weaver as their presidential candidate at the party’s first national convention in Omaha, Nebraska, on July 4, 1892.
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Populists elected six senators and seven representatives to Congress.
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Bryan launched a national speaking tour in which he promoted the free coinage of silver.
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Received the 1896 Democratic presidential
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