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Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes was elected the 19th president of the United States -
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Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The 1877 Railroad Strike began in Martinsburg, West Virginia on July 14 after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year. After being suppressed by the national Guard, an unofficial militia, the strike finally ended some 69 days later with federal troops. -
Edison invents the light bulb
In January 1879, Edison manufactured his first high-resistance incandescent electric lamp at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It works by passing electricity through a thin platinum wire in a glass vacuum bulb, which delays the filament's melting. -
20th president of the United States
At the 1880 Republican National Convention, delegates chose Garfield, who had not sought the White House, as a compromise presidential nominee on the 36th ballot. In the 1880 presidential election, he conducted a low-key front porch campaign and narrowly defeated Democratic nominee Winfield Scott Hancock. -
21st President of the United States
Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st President of the United States -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was approved on May 6, 1882. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
22th President of the United States
Grover Cleveland become the 22th President of the United States -
strike
On May 1, 1886, 350,000 workers staged a nationwide work stoppage to demand the adoption of a standard eight-hour workday. Forty thousand workers struck in Chicago, Illinois; ten thousand struck in New York; eleven thousand struck in Detroit, Michigan. -
Dawes General Allotment Act
Dawes General Allotment Act, also called Dawes Severalty Act, (February 8, 1887), U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans, with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man's image. -
23rd President of the United States
Benjamin Harrison becomes the 23rd President of the United States -
Pullman Strike
Pullman Strike, (May 11, 1894–c. July 20, 1894), in U.S. history, widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894. The federal government's response to the unrest marked the first time that an injunction was used to break a strike. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
25th President of the United States
William McKinley became the 25th President of the United States -
Gold Standard Act
The Gold Standard Act was an Act of the United States Congress, signed by President William McKinley and effective on March 14, 1900, defining the United States dollar by gold weight and requiring the United States Treasury to redeem, on demand and in gold coin only, paper currency the Act specified.