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Chronology 1862-1896
U.S. History 1302
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1862 | Land-Grant college Act |
| 1865 | Civil War ends |
| 1866 | National Labor Union organized |
| 1870 | Populations in 25 cities exceed 50,000 |
| 1871-1885 | Anti-Chinese riots across the West |
| 1871 | Great Chicago Fire |
| 1872 | Montgomery Ward opens first U.S. mail-order business |
| 1873-1879 | Depression |
| 1874 | Women's Christian temperance Union founded |
| 1877 | Great Railway Strike |
| 1881 | 669,431 immigrants enter United States Publication of Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor |
| 1886 | Knights of Labor reaches peak membership Haymarket Square bombing American Federation of Labor founded |
| 1887 | American Protective Association founded Dawes Severalty Act |
| 1888 | First electric streetcar system |
| 1890 | Populations in 58 cities exceed 50,000 Second Mississippi Plan |
| 1892 | Homestead strike |
| 1893-1897 | Depression |
| 1894 | Pullman strike |
| 1895 | Booker T. Washington delivers Atlanta Compromise |
| 1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson |