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The Indian ambush shocked the nation and many wondered about the strength of our army.
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The first farmers alliance was formed to combat the hold that big business had on economics. they sought to counter the massive force and negotiate with wholesalers to get a higher price for their crops.
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Crazy Horse led a band of Oglala Indians to surrender.
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Railroad workers all over the country struck because the railroad companies kept cutting wages. They called for fair wages, an 8 hour work day and an end to child labor.
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This is one of the first times when automation and assembly lines were being implemented. It allowed for production of wheat harvesters to nearly double.
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At this point there were only a couple hundred buffalo left
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At this time there were over 400,000 men working on the railroads.
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There are over 200,000 Chinese immigrants living in the US.
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Sitting bull and his followers surrendered and went to the reservations.
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The Knights of labor membership reached 700,000 people!
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A railroad fired a union worker. This spurred a national strike that ended in disaster as a bomb went off in Chicago that came to be known as the Haymarket riot.
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Allotted 160 acres to every head of a native American family.
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His first impressions are not very great though he says we are blinded by greed.
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Owners of big business won huge fortunes and eventually the top 1% controlled 25% of the entire nation assets.
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The same farmers that created the alliance sought to combat the political power above them, the peoples' party was formed.
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Between 150 and 300 native Americans were killed when tensions became elevated and American cavalry shot into a crowd.
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Steel worker struck at a steel mill, overthrew it and occupied it until state militia broke it up.
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The populist party won a million votes and signaled that the party had a bright future.
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It was at this time that the peoples' party nominated James. b. Weaver as their presidential nominee.
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the panic of 1893 was the worst depression the US had seen ever. The populist party was seen as the solution to the economic problem in the states and gained more attention.
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The 1894 elections saw the populist party install six senators and seven representatives to the congress.
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After the realization of assembly line efficiency. The only way for small business to thrive was to merge together to form big business that would dominate the markets. Standard Oil is an example of this, they merged with other small businesses and then came to control 90% of all oil refineries at the time.
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William Bryan won the democratic presidential nomination after a stunning speech about the war against the gold standard.
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William McKinley won the republican presidential nomination as a small town conservative that was all about the gold standard and sought to turn the US into gold.