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The act provided public land for higher education.
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The Union consisted of skilled, unskilled, and farmers. It lasted 6 years and had 600,000 members. The 1873 depression ruined the National Labor Union.
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Grant won the presidential election. The main reason that he won is because he waved his "bloody shirt." That meant that he constantly reminded voters of his military record, and that he led the North to a victory.
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The transcontiental rail road was completed in 1869 near Ogden, Utah.
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Wyoming Territory grants women the right to vote.
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These two men came up with a scheme to corner the gold market. It was unsuccessful.
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Organized by John D. Rockefeller. The company eventually sold 95% of all oil sold in the US.
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Boss Tweed used bribes, graft, and rigged elections to mooch money and ensure contiunual power for himself and his buddies.
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Union Pacfic Railroad insiders formed the Credit Mobilier construction company and then hired themselves at inflated prices to build the railroad line. They gave stock to Congressmen in order to avoid getting busted. The newspaper finally exspoed the scandal.
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Reformers started the party because they were tired of the scandals, and they wanted to clean things up.
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It was started by overspending with borrowed money for railroads and factories. Two main reasons were over-spending and the banks gave crdit too easy. It was started when banks and busniess began to go bankrupt. Blacks were extremely hit when Freedman's Savings and Trust co. went bankrupt, losing $7 million in savings.
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People stole whiskey tax mmoney from the government.
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Alexander Graham Bell invited the telephone.
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The North got Hayes elected as President. The South got a pledge that Hayes would remove military occupation in tyhe South, and money would be spend on the Texas and Pacific Railroad.
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Thomas Edison invited the light bulb.
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James A. Garfield won the election.
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Killed by CHarles J. Guiteau in September. Vice president becomes new president.
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IOt was stared as a secret program, but came open in 1881. It welcomed skilled, unskilled, women, and blacks. "Non producers" were banned.
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Forbade the immigration of Chinese to America
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed. It banned the immigation of Chinese. The was the first immigation law to specifically target and ban a specific ethnicity.
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It set up CIvil Service COmmission which awarded jobs based on performance rather than how much "pull" a person had.
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New York's Brooklyn Bridge was completed.
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Louis Sullivan built the first Skyscraper in Chicago. He used steel, concrete, and newly invinted elevators.
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The incident occured in Chicago. A bombing took place and a handful or bystanders were killed. The public placed blame on The Knights and unions. EIght anarchists were arrested. The effect of the Haymarket Square incident was a distrust in unions and a decline in their membership.
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In the Wabash case the Supreme Court said that states cannot regulate interstate trade, and that only Congress could. So if any regulation had to be done US Congress would have to do it.
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AF of L was started by Samuel Gompers. It was made up of small, independent unions that were tied together by their assocation with the AF of L. Gompers main goal was to get more. He wanted better wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions. The AF of L was made up of only skilled workers.
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The statue was given to the United States by France. It was errected in the New York Harbor.
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The act outlawed rebates and pools. It also required rates to be openly published and banned charging low rates for the long haul and higher rates for the short haul.
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He ran House like a dictator. He got "Billion Dollar Congress" passed which caused the US to dole out that much money for the first time. Pensions were given to veterans, and more silver was purchased. He aslo created the McKinley Tariff that hiked rates to roughly 48%.
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The act was enacted in attempt to outlaw trusts or monopolies. The law forbade combinations such as pools or cartels, interlocking directorates, and holding companies. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was not effective because it lacked real teeth in enforcement
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Basketball was invited.
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The first reccession or depression in the industrial age. Nearly 8,000 businesses went out of business in six months. Cleveland now had a budget deficit. The nation's gold supply was getting dangerously low.
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It barely chnages the McKinley Tariff. Itcontained an income-tax provision that was decalred unconsitutional in 1895.
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Loaned $65 million in gold to the federal government.
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Plessy v. Ferguson stated that "separate but equal" facilities for the races were legal. Segregation was "okayed" federally when the Supreme Court passed this.
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Utah is admitted into the Union.
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Raised tariff rates to 46.5% because Wilson-Gorman wasn't bringing in enough money.
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The act said that people could trad in paper money for gold.
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The United States Steel Corporation was formed.