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Gilded Age
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Lincoln Assassination
President Lincoln was shot by John Wilks Boothe at Ford's theatre. -
Grant nominated for presidency
After the republicans were freed from the union partys war days the nominated Grant. -
Black Friday
Fisk and Gould raised the price of gold and honest buisness people suffered. -
15th Amendent
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. -
immigrant serge
The census reported 39 million people with still more people comming. -
Tweed Scandal
the New York Times turned down $5 million to not publish the damaging evidence against th Tweed Ring. -
The Great Chicago Fire
The fire killed up to 300 people and distroyed roughly 3.3 square miles and left more then 100,000 homeless. -
Economic Panic
the country built more railroads and sunk more mines then the market could handle and everything just blew up. -
Resumption Act of 1875
Hard money advocates won whenthe act was passed it had the government withdraw greenbacks from circulation -
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The act was suppost to guarentee equal accomidations in public places and prohibited racil discrimination in jury selection. -
No president on Inauguration Day
but some statesmen worked tirelessly to a comromise and agreed on the Henry Clay tradition- the Compromise of 1877 -
Redemtion Day
This was the time greenback holders were to trade in the lighter greenback bills in for gold, little of them actually did. -
Hitler was born
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian born German Polotician and the leader of the Nazi Party. -
Garfield Assassinated
Charles J. Guiteau Shot the president in the back in a Washington railroad station. Garfield suffered for eleven weeks before he died. -
Gun fight at the O.K. Corral
This was the most famous gun fight of the American Old West. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Signed by pesisdent Chester A. Arthur, halteted chinese imigration for 10 years and prohibited from becoming US citizens. -
Pendleton Act
This act set up the Civil Service Commission it was pushed for be the Republicans. -
Grover Cleavland takes office
Cleavland was the first democrat back in office since Buchanan twety eight years later. -
Cleveland voted out of office
he became the first sitting president voted ot of office since Martin Van Buren in 1840. -
Johnstown Flood
Catastrophic failure of the South Fork Damnand killedc 2,209 people. -
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
The act was an attempt to reduce the financial constraints of farmers due to fall in price of the silver. -
The Homestead Strike
three hundreed armed Pinkerton detectives floated on barges down the Monogahela River to the Carnegie steel plant because they were angry about pay cuts. -
The Kansas Legislature
The Kansas capitol was seized by rifle bearing populists after the election of 1892.
