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Events
Lincoln reveals "ten percent plan"
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln Congress establishes Freedman's Bureau 13th amendment ratified
Congress passes Civil Rights Act
Radical Republicans pass Military Reconstruction Act
Congress moves to impeach Johnson 14th amendment ratified
15th amendment ratified
Rutherford B. Hayes defeats Samuel Tilden in contested presidential election
Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction and results in Hayes's presidency
California Gold Rush begins
Homestead and Pacific Railway Act encourage Western expansion Dakota War fought
Transcontinental Railroad finished
Barbed wire invented
Battle of Little Bighorn fought
Chinese Exclusion Act passed
Dawes Severalty Act divides Indian tribal lands
John D. Rockefeller founds standard oil
Andrew Carnegie founds Carnegie steel Panic of 1873 triggers depression
Alexanders Graham Bell patents telephone
Great Railroad strike lasts 47 days
Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb
Labor rally at Haymarket square erupts in violence American Federation of Labor is founded
Homestead steel strike
Professional baseball begins with the founding of the National League
Chicago builds first ten story skyscraper
Frank Sprague invents electric trolley
Jane Addams opens Hull House in Chicago
Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives Carnegie Hall opens in New York
City Beautiful movement begins
Coney Island amusement park opens
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner publish The Gilded Age
Charles Guitreau assassinates President James Garfield
Congress passes Pendleton Civil Service Act
Populist Party emerges out of Farmers' Alliance movement
Coxey's Army marches on Washington Pullman Strike paralyzes railroad traffic
William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan for president
