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	1874		Invention of barbed wire
	1875		Molly Maguire strike
	1876		Custer's Last Stand Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
	1877		Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
	1879		Thomas Edison invents light bulb
	1880		Salvation Army arrives in US
	1881		Booker T. Washington starts the Tuskegee Institute
	1882		Edison starts the electricification of New York City with the launch of the Pearl Street Central Station
	1886		Haymarket riot AFL starts
	1889		Jane Addams starts Hull-House Oklahoma opened
	1890		Close of frontier Sherman Anti-Trust Act
	1894		Pullman Strike
	1896		George Washington Carver becomes head of the agricultural department at the Tuskegee Institute Pless v. Ferguson
	1898		Spanish-American War starts and ends Hawaiian Islands annexed
	1899		Phillipines revolt against US rule
	1900		Boxer Rebellion
	1901		Theodore Roosevelt becomes president Northern Securities Company started by J.P. Morgan Up From Slavery - Autobiography of Booker T. Washington published
	1902		President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act
	1903		Wright brothers invent the airplane Panama splits from Columbia and grants US right to build Panama Canal Ford Motor Co. starts
	1904		Supreme court dissolves Northern Securities Company
	1906		San Francisco Earthquake
	1909		Model T introduced Robert Peary reaches North Pole
	1912		Titanic sinks
	1915		Booker T. Washington dies
	1919		18th Amendment ratified
	1920		19th Amendment ratified