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Battle of Little Big Horn
The battle between the Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull against General George Custer and his army. The Indians defeated the Americans. -
Light Bulb
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. -
James A. Garfield
Garfield, a general during the Civil War, became president. Eventually assassinated and VP Auther became president. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This act prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers into America. -
Grover Cleavland
He was the 22nd and 24th President. He is the only one who has served two non-consecutive terms of Presidency. -
Dawes Act
This law provided Indian reservation land to be distributed to individual Native Americans. Much of the land was unsuitable for farming and this act proved disastrous for Indians. -
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Panic of 1893
This was an economic depression that extended to 1897. There was a collapse of the employers, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, and the National Cordage Company. This led to an economic crisis as banks closed and there was panic in the stock market. -
William McKinley
He was president during the Spanish-American War and under him the economy boosted. -
Spanish-American War
This war took place between Spain and America. It started because Cuba was trying to gain independence from Spain and the USS Maine was exploded in the Cuban harbor, so America intervened. -
Treaty of Paris
A peace agreement treaty that ended the Spanish-American War, allowed Cuba to gain independence and put America on the track to be a world power.
