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Congress authorizes trancontinental railraoad
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Morill Act provides public land for higher education
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Homestead Act
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Sand Creek massacre
Nevada admitted to Union -
National Labor Union organized
First working transatlantic telegraph cable -
Transcontinental railroad joined near Ogdon, Utah
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Wyoming Territory grant women rights
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Standard Oil Company organized
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Comstock Law
Construction of New York's Central Park officially completed -
WCTU organized
Chautauqua education movement launched
Impressionist artist debut in Paris -
Bell invents telephone
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Battle of Bighorn
Colorado admitted to Union -
Edison invents electric light
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Dumbbell tenement introduced
Mary Baler Eddy establishes Christian Science
Salvation Army begins work in America -
Booker T Washington becomes head of Tuskegee Institute
American Red Cross founded
Henry James publishes The Portrait of aLady -
First Immigration-restriction laws passed
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Canadian Pacific Railway, first transcontinental rail line, completed acorss Canada
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Interstate Commerce Act
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APA formed
Hatch Act supplements Morill Act -
Dawes Severalty Act
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Battle of Wounded Knee
Construction of Tans-Siberian Railroad begins