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Era 6
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Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone.
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Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president.
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Thomas Edison invents a working light bulb.
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James Garfield is elected president.
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Garfield is assassinated.
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Grover Cleveland is elected president.
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Benjamin Harrison is elected president.
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Wounded Knee
Massacare of Sioux Indians. -
William McKinley is reelected.
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Sherman Antitrust Act
Tried (and failed) to bring an end to the Trusts and corruption between companies and the government. -
William McKinley is elected president.
This brings about the end of Populism because he was a Republican. -
Hawaii is annexed.
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Wright Brothers
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Woodrow Wilson is elected president.