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8 Hour workdays
All workers required to work 8 hour days -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
Golden spike driven into railroad to finish The railroad -
Standard Oil Of Ohio
John D. Rockefeller forms Standard Oil of Ohio -
The Great Chicago Fire
Claimed 250 Lives and destroyed one third of the city -
Arrested for Attempting to vote
Susan B. Anthony and other females arrested for attempting to vote in Rochester, New York. -
Financial Panic of 1873
There's a Financial Panic, Over 5,000 business's fail -
America's First Kidnapping For Ransom
Charley Brewster Ross is kidnapped from in front of his house, and Is taken for random, his body is never found. -
Invention Of Barbed-Wire
Barbed-Wire keeps Cattle on the Great Plains Safe, while others struggle. -
Patented Telephone
29 year old Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. -
Phonograph Invented
Thomas Edison Invents the Phonograph -
Internal Combustion Engine
Carl Benz makes first car with INternal Combustion Engine -
Invention of Light Bulb
Thomas Edison invents the first Light Bulb! -
Population Rise
America's population has now hit 50 million people. -
Century Of Dishonor
Helen Hunt Jackson's book Century Of Dishonor is released. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, Barring Chinese Immigrants for 10 years. -
Standard Time Born
United States and Canada adopt standard time. -
Birth of The Skyscraper
First 10 story hgh rise in Chicago, birth of the Skyscraper. -
Statue Of Liberty
Glover Cleveland unveils the Statue Of Liberty. -
Johnstown Flooding
Johnstown, Pa is flooded killed over 2,200 people. -
Population Rise
American population hits 62 million and rising. -
Sitting Bull killed
Indian police kill Sitting Bull in South Dakota. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Wounded Knee Massacre happens, kills many. -
Angry Mobs
Mobs in New Orleans break into prison and kill 11 Immigrants in rage. -
Populist Party
Populist Part founded in Cinncinati, Ohio. -
Stolen Land
900,000 Acres of land taken form Native's and givent o white settlers. -
Voting Populist
Populist party nominates James Baird Weaver for President. -
Supreme Court
Supreme Court strikes down Income Tax. -
Battleship Maine
battleship Maine blows up while anchored in Havana, Cuba. -
American Citizenship
If you born in America your a legal American citizen regardless of where your parents were born. -
Annexing Hawaii
Pressident McKinley Annexes Hawaii.
