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Rutherford B. Hayes Wins
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Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the first telephone.
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Custer’s army is destroyed by Lakota, Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.
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Thomas Edison invents and patents the phonograph.
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Railroads began to conquer the remaining percent of the United States.
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Violence related to Irish ethnicity and unionism is quelled by authorities; murder convicts are hanged.
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Chief Joseph surrendered to the US military.
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Thomas Alva Edison files for a patent for his new incandescent bulb.
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The President was shot by an insane political radical named Charles Guiteau. The President died from incorrect medical treatment weeks later.
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Booker T. Washington became the first president of the Institute, a school for African Americans.
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Limited immigration privileges of a certain ethnic group for the first time in US history.
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Prevented political figures from employing federal government positions on the basis of party affiliation.
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Riot of Chicago workers against unions and police, 7 police officers killed.
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Invented by John Stith Pemberton as a patent medicine. Umm?
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The Apaches gave up to the US Military after months of guerrilla warfare and terrorism on the settlers.
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Forcibly relocated Native Americans to reservations, and made provisions for appropriation of their land to white settlers.
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Kodak Camera company founded by George Eastman and Henry Strong; Thomas A. Edison invented and patented the Motion Picture Projector.
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Utter destruction of the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania after the collapse of the South Fork Dam.
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Railroad employees refused to work, shutting down most of US railway traffic west of Detroit, Michigan.
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Decision by Supreme Court that allowed segregation provided the separate facilities were equal in quality. “Separate but equal”
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Prospectors rushed to Alaska in search of precious metal
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United States fought for dominance in both the Atlantic and Pacific, conquering Cuba and the Philippines from the Spanish.
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Moro warriors fought the US military for control of the island country.
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McKinley wins the election.
