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The West, Imperialism & Industrialization
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Electric light perfected
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James A. Garfield inaugurated President
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Assassination of Garfield. Dies September 19. Chester A. Arthur becomes President
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Grover Cleveland becomes President
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Statue of Liberty unveiled, New York
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Benjamin Harrison becomes President
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Oklahoma opened to settlers
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William McKinley becomes President
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Destruction of the Maine at Havana
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Spanish American War
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Battle of Manila
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Battle of San Juan Hill
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Annexation of Hawaii
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Treaty with Spain signed at Paris
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Great disaster at Galveston, Texas
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Boxer Rebellion
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President McKinley shot by an assassin. Dies on September 14. Theodore Roosevelt becomes President.
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The Great Anthracite Coal Strike
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Panama Canal Treaty
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Pacific Cable completed
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) established
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Ford Model T marketed
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William Howard Taft becomes president
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Woodrow Wilson becomes president
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U.S. Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark
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US enters World War I
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Treaty of Versailles end of WWI
