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The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
When in 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner entitled their co-authored novel The Gilded Age, they gave the late nineteenth century its popular name....
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Mary Elizabeth Lease: Populist Reformer
Blaming Wall Street for the nation’s economic woes is not a new...
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Anti-Chinese bill vetoed
President Rutherford B. Hayes vetoed a Congressional bill restricting Chinese immigration on the basis that it violated the 1868 Burlingame Treaty, which provided for unrestricted Chinese immigration into the United States.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the nation’s first law to ban immigration by race or nationality. The act, which was renewed and enforced until 1943, banned Chinese immigration for ten years and prohibited Chinese from becoming citizens.
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Indian Rights Association founded
In Philadelphia, the Indian Rights Association was formed “to secure the Indians of the United States the political and civil rights already guaranteed to them by treaty and statute of the United States, and such as their civilization and circumstances justify.”
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Buffalo Bill’s “Wild West”
The first public performance of Buffalo Bill’s “Wild West” show took place in Omaha, Nebraska. The show featured dramatic exhibitions of elements of the old West, including roping, horseback riding, shootouts, and stagecoach robberies. It went on to great success, touring the United States and the world.
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Dawes Act
The Dawes Act, also known as the General Allotment Act, allowed Indian reservation land to be broken up into small allotments for sale to individual American Indians. The purpose of the act was to encourage Indians to become farmers, but the plots were too small to support families or to raise livestock.
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Enabling Act of 1889
The Enabling Act of 1889 allowed Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Washington to become states.