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If your born in the United States, the 14th Amendment guarantees due process and equal protection of the laws.
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The last spike was hammered at Promontory Point to complete the transcontinental railroad. With 20,000 workers, there was 1,775 miles of tracks.
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US population: 39,818,449.
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If your black or white, boy or girl, the 15th Amendment guarantees the right to vote.
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Indians were to be treated with respect and viewed as independent nations.
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Because of the Comstock Act, obscene literature was prohibited from being mailed.
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Barbed wire was invented and it was the first most effective way to fence in cattle on the Great Plains.
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The country had its first kidnapping for ransom when Charley Brewster Ross, a 4-year-old boy, was abducted. Unfortunately the child was never found.
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Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse fought with other Sioux Indians and killed George A. Custer and 265 other officers at the Little Horn River.
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Root beer is introduced by Charles Elmer Hires.
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Chief Joseph and Nez Perce Indians are captured by federal troops. They were forced to live in Oklahoma.
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A womans suffrage amendment 34-16 was defeated by the Senate
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The lightbulb is invented by Thomas Edison.
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US population: 50,155,783
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The return of Sitting Bull and other Sioux Indians to the United States.
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The story Century of Dishonor, by Helen Hunt Jackson, changed the way the Natives were treated.
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They didn't want the Chinese coming in to the United States so they band them for ten years.
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Times zones were created in the United States because of the railroads.
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Over 300,000 workers started eight hour shifts.
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The Statue of Liberty is unveiled by president Grover Cleveland.
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Offordable prices had to be made for the railroads and it was forbidding to reduce the rates. This was because of the Interstate Commerce Act.
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The Dawes Severalty Act gave congress the power to create reservations for the native americans.
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A flood in the city of Johnstown Pa. that killed 2,295 people
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US population: 62,947,714.
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The western frontier was closed down after the announcement of the US Bureau of the Census.
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Sitting Bull was killed by the indian police in South Dakota.
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Baskeball was invented in Springfield by James Naismith, a physical education instructor.
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Ellis Island, in NY, allowed all immigrants to pass through. Twenty million passed before 1954 when it was closed.
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A court injunction forbiddinged the American Railray Union from messing up the passing of mail.
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An income tax is striked down by the Supreme Court.
