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1877 | Munn v. Illinois (laws affecting public interest could be made or charged by state legislatures without interference from the courts) GO ! |
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1877 | Compromise of 1877 |
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1877 | Rutherford B Hayes assumes presidency and ends Reconstruction GO ! |
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1877 | United States acquires naval base at Pearl Harbor |
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1877 | Nez Perce War |
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1878 | Timber and Stone Act |
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1878 | Bland-Allison Act |
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1878 | United States acquires naval station in Samoa |
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1880 | James A. Garfield elected President GO ! |
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1881 | President Garfield is shot and killed in Sept. and succeeded by Chester Arthur GO ! |
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1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act GO ! |
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1882 | European Restriction Act |
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1883 | Pendleton Civil Service Act GO ! |
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1885 | Grover Cleveland inaugurated as President of the U.S. GO ! |
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1886 | The American Federation of Labor Is organized |
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1886 | Wabash v. Illinois (states cannot impose regulations concerning price, compensation, taxation, or any other restrictive regulation interfering with or seriously affecting interstate commerce) GO ! |
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1887 | Hatch Act |
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1887 | Dawes Severalty Act GO ! |
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1887 | Interstate Commerce Act GO ! |
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1889 | North Dakota is the 39th admitted to the Union |
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1889 | South Dakota is the 40th admitted to the Union |
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1889 | Montana is the 41st admitted to the Union |
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1889 | Washington is the 42nd admitted to the Union |
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1889 | Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd President of the U.S. GO ! |
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1889 | First Pan-American Conference |
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1889 | Idaho is the 43rd admitted to the Union |
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1890 | Wyoming is the 44th admitted to the Union |
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1890 | Massacre at Wounded Knee |
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1890 | Ocala platform |
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1890 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act GO ! |
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1890 | Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
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1890 | McKinley Tariff |
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1890 | Elections bill defeated
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1891 | Baltimore Crisis |
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1891 | Forest Reserve Act |
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1892 | Grover Cleveland elected U.S. President GO ! |
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1892 | Populist party formed |
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1893 | Sherman Silver Purchase Act repealed |
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1893 | Hawaiian coup by American sugar growers |
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1894 | Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, including Income Tax |
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1895 | American pressure leads to arbitration of the British boundary dispute with Venezuela |
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1895 | In Re Debs (the federal government has the constitutional authority to stop strikes that affect the "general welfare" of all Americans) |
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1895 | Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company (strikes down part of Wilson-Gorman Tariff) |
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1895 | United States v. E.C.Knight GO ! |
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1896 | Utah is the 45th admitted to the Union |
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1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson (legalizes segregation in railway cars - doctrine of "separate but equal") GO ! |
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1896 | Populist party fuses with Democrats |
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1896 | Weyler's reconcentration policy in Cuba |
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1897 | William McKinley inaugurated as President of the U.S. GO ! |
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1898 | The Teller Amendment GO ! |
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1898 | Newlands Resolution |
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1898 | U.S. declares war on Spain over Cuba; Treaty of Paris GO ! |
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1898 | 8 July - Annexation of Hawaiian Islands GO ! |
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1898 | December - Annexation of the Philippines |
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1899 | Philippine-American War begins GO ! |
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1899 | Germany and the United States divide the Samoan Islands |
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1899 | Open Door notes GO ! |
