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Congress enacts an 8-hour work day for workers employed by the government.
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Built in just over three years by 20,000 workers, it had 1,775 miles of track. The railroad's promoters received 23 million acres of land and $64 million in loans as an incentive.
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Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi becomes the first African American to serve in the US Senate.
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The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees the right to vote regardless of race
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Congress no longer allows Indians tribes to be treated as independant nations with whom the government must conduct negotiations
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Susan B. Anthony and other women's suffrage advocates are arrested for attempting to vote in Rochester, N.Y.
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The Financial Panic of 1873 begins. 5,183 business fail.
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4-years-old Charley Brewster Ross is abducted, this is the countries first kidnapping for ranson. The child was never found.
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29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
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Charles Elmer Hires introduces root beer.
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30-year-old Thomas Edison invents the Phonograph.
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Senate defeats a woman's suffrage amendment 34-16
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Congress granted women attorney's the right to argue before the Supreme Court.
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Thomas Edison invents the light bulb!
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President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau
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Booker T. Washington opens Tuskegee Institute.
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Sitting bull and the other Sioux Indians return to the U.S from Canada.
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Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, they were barring the Chinese Immigrants for ten years.
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Railroads in the United States and Canada adopt a system of standard time.
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300,000 workers demonstrate in behalf of an eight-hour work day.
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In Chicago, killed seven police officers and wounded sixty.
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President Grover Cleveland unviels a symbol of freedom; the Statue of Liberty.
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Congress passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, outlawed any combination "in retraint of trade.
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Indian police kill Sitting Bull in South Dakota
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Wounded Knee Massacure.
“The Sioux tribes are naturally warlike and turbulent” Benjamin President Harrison -
A New Orleans mobs breaks into a prison and kills eleven Sicilian immigrants accused of murdering the city's police chief.
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The boll weevil arrives in Texas
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Federal troops enforce a court injunction, that forbids the American Railway Union, from interfering with interstate and delivery of mail.
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Supreme Court strikes down income tax.
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Supreme Court strikes down income tax
