1876-1900

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  • Phonography and Electric light system invented

  • First official patent for telephone

  • Railroad Strike

  • Formation for Socialist Labor Party

  • Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce surrendered

  • Bland-Allison Act

  • First elevated railroads developed

  • James Garfield elected President

  • Tuskegee Institute established

  • Chester Arthur became President after Garfield's death

  • James Garfield shot by Charles Guiteau

  • James Garfield died from gunshot wound

  • Charles Guiteau hung for murder of President James Garfield

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Civil Service Act (Pendleton Civil Service Act)

  • Grover Cleveland elected President

  • Alaska bought from Russia for 7.2 million dollars

  • Colored Farmers' National Alliance formed

  • Geronimo died

  • Sitting Bull surrendered at Fort Buford, Montana

  • Haymarket Square Incident

  • Interstate Commerce Act

  • Dawes Act (Dawes General Allotment Act)

  • Benjamin Harrison elected President

  • North and South Dakotas, Montana, and Washington declared States of America

  • McKinley Tariff Act

  • Dependent Pension Act

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act

  • Idaho and Wyoming declared States of American

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

  • Homestead Steel Strike

  • Grover Cleveland elected President for 2nd Term

  • Ellis Island opened

  • Panic/Depression of 1893

  • Pullman Strike

  • American Federation of Labor formed

  • William McKinley elected President

  • Court case Plessy v Ferguson

    Resulted in Jim Crow laws

  • W.E.B. DuBois began his teaching career

  • Western Federation of Miners formed

  • Boston opened short underground railroad

  • Treaty of Paris

  • War of 1898

  • Period: to

    Philippine-American War