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The battle between the Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull against General George Custer and his army. The Indians defeated the Americans. -
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. -
Garfield, a general during the Civil War, became president. Eventually assassinated and VP Auther became president. -
This act prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers into America. -
He was the 22nd and 24th President. He is the only one who has served two non-consecutive terms of Presidency. -
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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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.
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He was president during the Spanish-American War and under him the economy boosted. -
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. -
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.
