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Andrew Carnegie
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"Old Immigration"
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Black Codes/KKK formed/Repossession of land by whites
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Sioux wars on the Great Plains
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Freedmen's Bureau established
Freedmen's Bureau wiki The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. -
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Reconstruction Acts
After the end of the American Civil War, as part of the on-going process of Reconstruction, the United States Congress passed four statutes known as Reconstruction Acts. President Andrew Johnson's vetoes of these measures were overridden by Congress. After Ex Parte McCardle (1867) came before the Supreme Court, Congress feared that the Court might strike the Reconstruction Acts down as unconstitutional. To prevent this, Congress repealed the Habeas Corpus Act of 1867, revoking to the Supreme Co -
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Ten Former Confederate States Readmitted to the Union
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14th Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling by the Supreme Court (1857) that had held that blacks could not be citizens of the United States.[1] -
Knights of Labor founded
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Granger Laws
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Consolidation of continental railroad network
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15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (for example, slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870. The Fifteenth Amendment is one of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
Great Fire in Chicago
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Panic of 1873
The Panic of 1873 triggered a severe international economic depression in both Europe and the United States that lasted until 1879, and even longer in some countries. The depression was known as the "Great Depression" until the 1930s, but is now known as the Long Depression.[1] The panic was caused by the fall in demand for silver internationally, which followed Germany's decision to abandon the silver standard in the wake of the Franco-Prussian war.[2] In 1871, Otto von Bismarck extracted a la -
Bethlehem Steel begins using Bessemer process
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Black hills of gold rush incites sioux war
The Sioux Wars were a series of conflicts between the United States and various subgroups of the Sioux people that occurred in the latter half of the 19th century. The earliest conflict came in 1854 when a fight broke out at Fort Laramie in Wyoming, when Sioux warriors killed several American soldiers in the Grattan Massacre, and the final came in 1890 during the Ghost Dance War. -
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Tenement Reform Law, New York
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Southern Farmers' Alliance founded
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"New Immigration"
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American Federation of labor founded
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Haymarket Riot in Chicago
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First U.S. settlement houses founded
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Dawes Severalthy Act
The Dawes Act (also called General Allotment Act, or Dawes Severalty Act of 1887),[1][2] adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.[1] The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. It also required that railroads publicize shipping rates and prohibited short haul/long haul fare discrimination, a form of price discrimination against smaller markets, particularly farmers. The Act created a feder -
Sioux Ghost Dance Movement
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Massacre at Wounded Knee
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Ocala Platform
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Yosemite National Park established
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
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Black Disfranchise in the South
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Ellis Island Immigration Station Opens
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Formation of People's (Populist) party
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Pullman Strike
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World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
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People's party fuses with Democrats
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William McKinley elected president
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Charles Sheldon, "In His Steps"
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Consolidation of New York City boroughs
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Spanish-American War
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Annexation of Hawaiian Islands
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Treaty of Paris; annexation of the Philippines
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W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Philadelphia Negro"
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Open Door Notes and Boxer Rebellion in China
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Filipino-American War
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McKinley Assassinated
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
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Rovert La Follette elected governor of Wisconsin
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Tom Johnson Elected mayor of Cleveland
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U.S. Military occupation of Cuba ends
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Platt Amendment
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Panamanian Revolt and independence
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Women's Trade Union League founded
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Elkins Act
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Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities
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Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
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Roosevelt Reelected
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U.S. intervenes in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Cuba
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Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
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Hepburn Act
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Meat Inspection Act
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Pure food and drug act
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"Gentleman's Agreement" with Japan
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Muller v. Oregon
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Danbury Hatters case
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William Howard Taft elected president
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NAACP founded
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Frederick Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
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Progressive party founded by Theodore Roosevelt
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Woodrow Wilson elected President
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Children's Bureau established
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Industrial Relations commission founded
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16th Amendment (income tax) ratified
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Underwood Tariff
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Federal Reserve System established
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17th Amendment passed
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Opening of the Panama Canal
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World War I begins
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Clayton Act
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Federal Trade Commission Act
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AFL has over 2 million members
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Ludlow Massacre in Colorado
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19th Amendment: Women's Suffrage
