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This amendment gives citizenship to anyone born in the United States.
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The rail road is finished in over 3 years. 20,000 workers worked to build the rail road. 1,775 miles of track used and 64 million dollars invested into it. end point in Utah.
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15th amendment grants rights to vote regardless of race, color, or previous slavery,
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Indian tribes are no longer considered independent nations under the government.
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Montgomery Ward begins his business selling goods by mail to people.
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The Financial Panic of 1873 kills 5,183 businesses.
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4-years-old Charley Brewster Ross was kiddnapped for randsom. first abduction for randsom in the country. he was never found.
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Civil Rights Act of 1875 is passed. it grants equal use of public accommodations and places. plus no exclusion of African Americans from jury duty.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
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Root Beer is invented by charles elmers hires.
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German engineer Karl Benz invetns the first car powered by and internal combustion engine.
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The light bulb is invented my Thomas Edison
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The US population grows to 50,155,783 people.
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President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau. he died september 19.
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Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act. No chinese can immigrate for 10 years
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Railroads in the US and Canada start to use standard time.
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Chicago is begins to be built with the first steel skeleton of a building. William Jenneys Home Insurance Company, marks the first skyscraper.
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President Grover Cleveland presents the Statue of Liberty.
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Dawes Severalty Act makes Indian reservations into individual pieces of land. Better lands are sold to white settlers.
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"Looking Backward" is published by Edward Bellamy, it predicts a cooperative commonwealth.
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New Jersey Permitts companies to buy the stock of other large corporations.
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Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
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In Cinncinatti, Ohio the populist party is founded.
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The World's Columbian Exhibition opens in Chicago in memory of the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World and it eatures the first Ferris Wheel.
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Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii is deposed by pro-american interests.
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Jacob Coxey leads a protest on Washington by the unemployed called coxeys army.
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The Supreme Courts puts down an income-tax.
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William Jennings Bryan lite up the democratic gathering with his "Cross of Gold" speech and received the nomination, but lost Nov. 3 by Republican William McKinley.
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The battleship Maine blows up and sinks while sitting in Havana harbor.
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Industrial Combinations come into play and John Rockofeller comments it,
