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A battle between the Sioux Indians led by Chief Sitting Bull and the U.S. army led by General Custer.
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Thomas Edison invented the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound.
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Thomas Edison invented the first electric lightbulb.
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Clara Barton establishes the Red Cross.
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Booker T. Washington establishes the Tuskegee institute in Tuskegee, Alabama as a school for African Americans.
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A law signed by President Chester A. Arthur prohibiting the immigration of all Chinese laborers into the United States.
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The Brooklyn Bridge was designed by John A. Roebling over the East River and connected New York and Brooklyn for the first time.
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was signed into law by Benjamin Harrison and outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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The Populist Party (also known as the People's Party) was established in order to speak on behalf of ordinary people in politics.
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The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago for the first time, exhibiting new inventions and discoveries in the midst of the Industrial Age.
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Henry Ford invented his very first automobile, the Quadricycle.
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The Spanish American War ended Spanish rule in the Americas and resulted in the U.S. control of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.
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