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Timeline events: Outer-Driven Era

(1866) 14th Amendment ratified, James Gang robs first bank, Charlie Goodnight starts his cattle drive, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed, first YWCA opens in Boston, Western Indian wars start
(1867) Alaska purchased from Russia, Reconstruction Acts, first Horatio Alger novel published, Ku Klux Klan organized
(1868) Andrew Johnson Impeachment sought, early patent awarded to Thomas Edison for an electric voting machine, "velocopedes", or bicycles, become popular, U. S. Grant elected President
(1869) Congress adopts the 15th Amendment, Prohibition Party founded, National Women's Suffrage Association, led by Susan B. Anthony is organized, Louisa May Alcott published _Little Women_ , Golden spike driven in Transcontinental rail, First profession Baseball Team (Cincinnati Red Stockings) founded, Jay Gould attempts to corner the gold market
(1870) J. D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil, Carpetbaggers invade the South, Bret Harte gains fame with _The Luck of Roaring Camp, and other Sketches_, Tolbert Lanston patents the padlock, Edward DeSmedt paves a road in New Jersey with asphalt, the Boardwalk in Atlantic City is completed
(1871) Chicago fire, Taminy Hall's Boss Tweed arrested, Luther Burbank begins his experiments with plant breeding, P. T. Barnum opens the "Greatest Show on Earth", NRA is formed
(1872) Grant reelected, Montgomery Ward starts mail order business, Jehovah's Witnesses are organized, Yellowstone National Park is established
(1873) Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire, San Francisco Cable Cars are invented, Ivy League schools draw up first rules for American Football, Bethlehem Steel begins production
(1874) Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner publish _The Gilded Age_ , Louis Tiffany opens a factory to produce elegant glass works, National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U) formed
(1875) "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children" is formed, Congress passes Civil Rights Act
(1876) Alexander G. Bell patents telephone, Custer's last stand, Rutherford B. Hayes elected, Mark Twain publishes _The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(1877) The Great Strike of 1877, Reconstruction ends, Nez Pierce indians led by Chief Joseph battle U.S. forces in Washington and Oregon
(1878) Democrats win both Houses of Congress, Billy the kid begins his career, Edison patents the phonograph and the Edison Electric Light Company is formed in New York City
(1879) Edison invents the light bulb, George Eastman patents a process for making dry photographic plates, Mary Baker Eddy founds the Church of Christ, Scientist, Frank Woolworth opens his "five-and-dime" store
(1880) James Garfield elected President, Andrew Carnegie begins to establish his Carnegie library system, American branch of the Salvation Army formed
(1881) Booker T. Washington founds Tuskegee Institute, Chester Arthur becomes President when James Garfield is assassinated, Clara Barton founds the Red Cross, Barnum and J. A. Bailey form their circus "The Greatest Show on Earth"
(1882) Longfellow and Emerson die, Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, John L. Sullivan tours the U.S. and makes boxing popular, first Labor Day celebrated
(1883) Civil Rights Act of 1775 declared unconstitutional, Ladies' Home Journal and Life Magazine begin publication, Brooklyn Bridge completed, "Buffalo Bill" Cody puts on his first Wild West Show.
(1884) Mark Twain publishes _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_, Republican "Mugwumps" bolt from the party convention, Grover Cleveland elected President, Linotype machine invented, Supreme Court rules that black citizens cannot be denied a vote, first Baseball championship played in the Polo Grounds, successful glider flight made by John J. Montgomery.
(1885) Washington Monument dedicated, Apache indians, led by Geronimo, resume their war against the white man, Winslow Homer paints "Fog Warning", Statue of Liberty is electrified.

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