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Chronology 1862-1896
U.S. History 1302
Question | Answer |
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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 |