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A large vien of prescious metals is discovered in Nevada.
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Colorado militi attacked a group of friendly natives and killed 70-163 of them.
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U.S goverment agency created to aid freed slaves during reconstrution.
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Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth
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The age of post Civil war reconstruction begins
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Pro white extremist group responsible for many crimes was formed
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Farmers unionised
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Secretary of State William H. Seward Purchased Alaska from Russia.
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Ulysses S. Grant beat Seymour in the presidential election.
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Fisk and Gould in a scandlous act aided by members of the U.S goverment gained control of the gold market for a period of time.
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J.D.Rockefeller created the worlds largest oil refining company.
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Tweed had gained control of many buisnesses within New York
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The goverment agency that helped freed slaves ended.
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Union Pacific Railroad formed a construction company and hired themselves at an inflated rate throught the U.S goverment.
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The Whiskey ring scandal that involved many goverment imploies was exposed
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Alexander Graham Bell Invents the first telephone
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Custard attacked a group of natives only ensureing his and his men's lives would end in that battle.
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Military reconstruction in the South ends with the compromise of 1877.
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Thomas Alva Edison and company invented the first practical electric light bulb.
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Mary Baker Eddy establishes the religion christian science
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James A. Garfeild becomes the 20th president of the U.S.A
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Clara Barton established The American Red Cross
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president Garfeild is assassinated and his vice president Cheaster Arthur replaces him.
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Booker T. Washington becomes the head of Tuskeggee Institute
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Barnum and Bailey Joined together to from the Barnum and Bailey circus
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The Chinese Exclusion Act becomes law and no more chinese immigrants were allowed into the U.S intill December 17th, 1943
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The Brooklyn Bridge was completed connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan.
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Mark Twain published the adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Grover Cleveland becomes the 22nd president of the U.S
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Louis Sullivan built the first sky scraper in Chicago
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The Statue of Liberty was placed in the New York harbor
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Benjamin Harrison becomes the 23rd president of the U.S
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Jane Addams established hull house in Chicago
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U.S millitary fought with Lokota Indians.
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The greatest economic depression to hit America intill the Great Depression starts.
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J.P. Morgan loans $65 million in gold to the federal goverment to end the depression of 1893
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Plessy v. Ferguson gives rise to seperate but equal faciluties for blacks and whites is leagal.
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The battleship Maine exploded in the Havana harbor causeing more U.S citizens to scream for war.
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Hawaii recived full territorial status in America.
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Compromise bill that helped split the republican party
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National Association for advancement of colored people was founded
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President Taft replaced Roosevelt's old secretary of the interior. This worried conservationists and further split the republican party.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist company llight ablaze with fire causeing hundreds of deaths. This incedent lead to many safety reforms.
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Taft goes after U.S Steel for the use of trusts to form a monopoly. This angered Theodore Roosevelt and caused him to run against Taft in the 1912 election.
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Taft beats Roosevelt for the republican nomination for presidency. Causeing Roosevelt to form a third party.
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The split republican party could not compete with the democratic party.
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The Federal Reserve Act lead to the Federal Reserve System or the goverments system of banking.
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The seventeenth amendment calls for the direct election of senators.
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The sixteenth amendment allows congress to levy an income tax.
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World War 1 begins in Europe with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinad of Austria
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The 18th Amendment brought prohibition to America.
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The enabling legislation for the 18th Amendment that provided a means of enforcement.
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Period in American history when Americans feared communism like they did witched years ago.
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Ogrinization of American veterans for American veterans.
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European immigration to America was limited to 3% of the population of the European nation already liveing in America.
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Highly controversial trial where two Itilan men were charged with murder.
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Five-Power Naval Treaty was created in an attempt to limit the naval arms race between most world powers but fell short due to a lack of restrictions on smaller ships.
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President Harding died and Coolidge took the presidency
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Secretary of the interior Albert B. Fall leased petroleum to companies at low rates with out competetive biding.
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Court case which over ruled the previous ruleing in the court case of Muller v. Oregon.
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Economic plan for international debt collection that proved unsuccesful.
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Coolidge won a three-way presidential race against Davis and La Follette.
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Immigration to the U.S was limited even further.
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Biology teacher John Scopes was taken to court for teaching evolution in the classroom. The trial turned into a media circus over religon or science.
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After the controversial trial the two anarchists were executed.
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Lindbergh became the first man to fly across the Atlantic ocean alone.
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The Jazz Singer becomes the first movie to use recorded diolauge and marked the end of the silent film.
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Hoover defated Smith for the presidency
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The Stock-Market crashed and ths began the Great Depression
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The Japanese went against many peaceful treaties and took Manchuria from China.
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FDR defeats Hoover for presidency
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FDR calls for a "banking holiday in which all banks will be closed intill the economey can stabalize.
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changed calendar of congressional sessions and date of presidential inauguration
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The United States recognizes the Soviet Union
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Prohibition was repealed
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FDR started the first of many diffrent acts to try and fix the econonmy.
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Mussolini invades Ethiopia togain access to oil
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Roosevelt defeats Landon for presidency
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Japan once again trys to conqure manchuria.
