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1862
Congress passes Homestead Act
1864
Sand Creek Massacre
1866
National Labor Union forms
1867
National Grange forms
1869
Transcontinental Railroad is completed
Knights of Labor forms
1870
Standard Oil Company forms
1875
Sioux Wars occur in Dakota Territory
1876
Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone
Battle of Little Bighorn
1877
Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner 1876 presidential election
Railroad workers strike across United States
Nez Percé War
1879
Thomas Edison invents lightbulb
1880
James A. Garfield is elected president
1881
Garfield is assassinated; Chester A. Arthur becomes president
Booker T. Washington becomes president of Tuskegee Institute
1882
Congress passes Chinese Exclusion Act
1883
Congress passes Pendleton Act
1884
Grover Cleveland is elected president
1885
Farmers’ Alliance forms
1886
Supreme Court issues verdict in Wabash case
Haymarket Square bombing
American Federation of Labor forms
1887
Congress passes Interstate Commerce Act
Congress passes Dawes Severalty Act
1888
Benjamin Harrison is elected president
1889
Jane Addams founds Hull House in Chicago
1890
Congress passes Sherman Silver Purchase Act, Pension Act, and McKinley Tariff
Congress passes Sherman Anti-Trust Act
U.S. Census Bureau declares frontier closed
Battle of Wounded Knee
1891
Populist Party forms
1892
Miners strike in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Homestead Strike occurs
Grover Cleveland is elected president again
1893
Depression of 1893
Lillian Wald founds Henry Street Settlement in New York
Frederick Jackson Turner publishes The Significance of the Frontier in American History
1894
“Coxey’s Army” marches on Washington, D.C.
Congress passes the Wilson-Gorman Tariff
Eugene V. Debs organizes Pullman Strike in Chicago
1895
J. P. Morgan bails out U.S. government
1896
Supreme Court issues Plessy v. Ferguson ruling
William Jennings Bryan delivers “Cross of Gold” speech
William McKinley is elected president
1897
Congress passes Dingley Tariff
1898
Anti-Imperialist League forms
USS Maine explodes in Havana Harbor
Spanish-American War begins
United States annexes Hawaii
Congress passes Teller Amendment
Admiral Dewey seizes Philippines at Manila Bay
1899
Aguinaldo leads Filipino Insurrection
John Hay writes First Open Door Note
1900
Congress passes Gold Standard Act
Congress passes Foraker Act
U.S. sends troops to China to suppress Boxer Rebellion
Hay drafts Second Open Door Note
McKinley is reelected
1901
McKinley is assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
U.S. Steel Corporation forms
Insular Cases decided
Congress passes Platt Amendment
