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time zone are created
time zones where created because ppl where going ou west on the trains -
homestead act
The Homestead Act was one of several United States Federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title up to 160 acrers -
end of the civil war
The Civil War ended in May 1865. -
boss tweed jailed
He was put in jail he was one of the richest man of his time -
transcontintal rail road
known as the Pacific Railroad -
telephone is invented
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Batttle of little bighorn
known as Custer's Last Stand he led 700 men. -
end of reconstruction
the reconstruction was over after the civil war -
chinese exclusion act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed into law by Chester A. Arthur on May 8, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. -
pendleton act is passed
The law only applied to federal government jobs: not to the state and local jobs that were the basis for political machines. -
invention of the telegraph
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dawes act
gave land of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma. -
sherman anti trust act is passed
named for Senator John Sherman.prohibit trusts -
battle of wounded knee
was the last armed conflict between the Great Sioux Nation and the usa -
Model T invented
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ellis island opens
an imigration island.