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Alexander Graham Bell finished his invention of the telephone. -
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This election was one of the most hostile and controversial elections in history. Hayes was the republican representative, while Tilden was the Democratic representative. Tilden won the popular vote and led in the electoral college, but 19 votes from three Republican-controlled states remained disputed. Allegations of widespread voter fraud forced Congress to set up a special electoral commission to determine the winner. Rutherford B. Hayes ended up winning the election. -
The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era. -
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This was a series of violent rail strikes across the United States. -
Thomas Edison introduced his invention using electricity. -
President Garfield was assonated during his term.
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This is when a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. -
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An American ship sitting referred to as the Maine was mysteriously sunk one day. The Americans blamed the Spanish for the sinking of their ship, because of the conflicts they had been previously having with them over Cuba. America declared war against Spain. -
American declared war against the Spanish. -
This treaty marked the end of the Spanish American War.