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- 1. Gold draws about 100,000 prospectors to Colorado
- 2. Congress passes Railway Act, Homestead Act, and Morrill Act
- 3. Transcontinental railroad completed
- 4. Barbed wire is patented
- 5. Battle of Little Bighorn
- 6. Thousands of African Americans leave the South to settle on the Plains in the Exoduster movement
- 7. Sitting Bull surrenders to U.S. Army
- 8. Blizzards contribute to the end of ranching on the open range
- 9. Ghost Dance spreads through many American Indian tribes
- 10. Massacre at Wounded Knee
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