Politics, Immigration, And Urban Life

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  • Transcontinental Railroad was created

  • Cornelius Vanderbilt

    moved to buy stock in the erie to combine it with his own New York central railroad. On November 1, he merged these railroads.

  • Munn v. Illinois

  • Hayes fights the spoils system

    Rutherford Hayes removed Chester A. Arthur from an important patronage positions in New York.

  • Benjamin Harrison Elected President

  • James A. Garffields Assaination

    James Garfield was shot and fatally wounded on July 2, 1881. He died on September 19, 1881.

  • Pendelton Civil Service Act

  • Republicans Nominated James G. Blaine for president

  • Grover Cleveland Became first Deocratic President since 1856

  • Wabash Case

    St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois

  • Sherlock Holmes debuts "A Study in Scarlet"

  • Sherman Antitrust Act was signed

  • Pullman Strike

    About 3000 employess of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a strike in a response to recent reductions in wages

  • William Mckinley was elected president

  • Boxer Rebellion occurs in China

  • President William McKinley's Assasintaion

    Assassinated by Leon Czolgosz