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The government provided 160 acres of land for anyone to buy or own
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Standard Oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868.
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There was 2 companies that committed fraud that were in the construction of railroads business
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A bunch of workers went on strike to get paid and treated better
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James A. Garfield was shot and assassinated at a railroad train station
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This is when the timezones in america were created which is now very useful then and even in the modern day future. The time zones are named, pacific, central, mountain and eastern
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A violent confrontation to the police on how they were being treated and wages
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There was a battle between workers and a security force, due to the workers calling another strike for wages, so the union locked them up.
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A railroad strike and boycott by protestors started so the government got federal troops to get control of them
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Henry Frick is attached by labor activist, and gets stabbed. but still survives