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The telephone is invented by Graham Bell.
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The Battle of the Little Big Horn begins, which Native Americans triumph over American soldiers.
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The Jim Crow Laws would be put in place, creating a physical divide between colored and white people.
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The light bulb, improved by Thomas Edison, was invented and patented the next year.
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Grover Cleveland became the twenty-second president of the United States.
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The widely known carbonated beverage is founded in 1886.
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The Dawes General Allotment Act is passed, and provides land to many Native American heads, in hopes of "modernizing" them.
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Benjamin Harrison is elected and inaugurated to become the twenty-third president of the United States.
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Grover Cleveland becomes the first president to serve two terms non-consecutively.
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Henry Ford creates his first Automobile, causing a boom in the industry, and changing the way many Americans lived their everyday lives.
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The ruling on this case became well known as it agreed with the constitutionality of segregation.
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William McKinley becomes the twenty-fifth President of the United States.
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The Spanish American War occurs, signaling a new time in history which the United States gets involved in foreign affairs.