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The Americas to 1620
Colonization & Settlement, 1585-1763
The American Revolution, 1763-1783
The New Nation, 1783-1815
National Expansion & Reform, 1815-1860
Civil War & Reconstruction, 1861-1877
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The Gilded Age
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Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Great Depression & WWII, 1929-1945
1945 to the Present
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American Federation of Labor founded
Bland-Allison Act
Blizzard of 1888
Coxey’s Army
Dingley Tariff Act
First Populist senator elected
Gold Standard Act
Granger Laws
Great Railway Strike of 1877
Grover Cleveland elected president again
Haymarket Square Riot
Homestead Steel Strike
Interstate Commerce Act
McKinley Tariff
Munn v. Illinois
National Farmers’ Alliance formed
Populist Party’s first convention
Pullman Steel Strike
Sixteenth Amendment
William Jennings Bryan nominated for president
William McKinley elected president
Wizard of Oz
“What’s the Matter with Kansas?”
People
Benjamin Harrison
Davis Waite
Eugene V. Debs
Henry S. Doyle
Ignatius Donnelly
James Weaver
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Samuel Gompers
Willa Cather
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
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Great Plains
Organizations
American Federation of Labor
Big Four
Central Pacific Railroad
Colored Farmers’ Alliance
Great Northern Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Knights of Labor
National Farmers’ Alliance
National Labor Union
Northern Pacific Rail Road
Pinkerton Agency
Populist Party
Union Pacific Railroad