Period VI Timeline Flashcards by Juliette Rooney | Brainscape

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1867

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Purchase of Alaska

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1869

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Founding of the Knights of Labour

Transcontinental Railway completed

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1873

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Panic of 1873

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1876

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Alexander Graham Bell develops the telephone

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1877

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Great Railroad Strike of 1877

Munn v. Illinois

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1879

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Thomas A. Edison develops the lightbulb

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1882

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Formation of the Standard Oil Trust

Chinese Exclusion Act

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1886

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Founding of the American Federation of Labour

Haymarket Square Riot

Haymarket bombing

Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois

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1887

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Interstate Commerce Act

Opening of the first subway system in the US (Boston).

Dawes Severalty Act

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1890

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Sherman Antitrust Act

Beginning of Ghost Dance movement

Massacre at Wounded Knee

Bison nearly extinct

How the Other Half lives, published

McKinley Tariff

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1892

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Homestead lockout (steel strike)

General Electric founded

Populist Party convention

Cleveland vs. the Populists

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1893

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World’s Columbia Exposition

Panic of 1893

Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”

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1894

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Pullman strike

Coxey’s Army

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1895

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United States v. E. C. Knight Company

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1896

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Plessy v. Ferguson

William McKinley elected president

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1870

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Women in Wyoming vote for the first time

Standard Oil organised

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1870-1880

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Immigration increases

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1871

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Indian Appropriation Act

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1872-1877

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Granger Laws

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1872

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Yellowstone National Park Act

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1883

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Pendleton Act

Northern Pacific Railroad completed

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1884

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Grover Cleveland elected

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1889

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Gospel of Wealth published

Hull House opened

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1891

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Annexation of Hawai’i