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Bessemer converter process allowed steel to be made quickly and inexpensively
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Construction of New York’s Central Park begins
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First oil well is struck in Titusville, Pennsylvania
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Comstock Lode is discovered
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Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published
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Congress passes the Homestead Act
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Sand Creek Massacre
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First Transcontinental Railroad is completed at Promontory, Utah
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Joseph Glidden invent barbed wire
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Alexander Graham Bell patents his telephone
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Thomas A. Edison makes the first successful incandescent light bulb
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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Great Railroad Strike
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With the compromise of 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president and Reconstruction comes to an end
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Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated, president
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Supreme court issues Munn vs. Illinois decision
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President James A. Garfield is assassinated
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John D. Rockefeller organizes the Standard Oil Trust
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Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act
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Congress passes the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
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In the Haymarket incident, a bomb set off at a Chicago labor rally kills and wounds police officers
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American Federation of Labor is organized
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Surrender of Geronimo marks the end of the Indian Wars
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Supreme court issues Wabash, St Louis and Pacific Railroad Company vs. Illinois decision
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Congress passes the Severalty Act
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Interstate Commerce Commission is created
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Otis Elevator Company installs the first electric elevator
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Battle of Wounded Knee
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Congress passes the Sherman Anti-trust Act, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and the McKinley Tariff
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Mississippi plan resegregates public facilities by race
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Basketball is invented
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Homestead Strike
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Ellis Island, federal Center for processing immigrants, opens
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People's party drafts its Omaha platform
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Frederick J. Turner's “Frontier Thesis”
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Economic depression affects a substantial proportion of the population
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Pullman Strike
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Booker T. Washington delivers his Atlanta Compromise speech
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Supreme court issues Plessy v. Ferguson decision
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Baseball's National League is formed
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J. Pierpont Morgan creates the US Steel Corporation
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National Associates of the Advancements of Colored People (NAACP) is created