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 .840 Chronological Table. 1868 Fourteenth Amendment adopted. Impeachment of Johnson. Grant elected President. Treaty with Nicaragua. 1869 First railway between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans completed. 1870 Fifteenth Amendment adopted. 1871 Reform of the Civil Service. Treaty of Washington (Alabama claims). 1872 Alabama arbitration. Grant re-elected President. 1876 Hayes elected President. 1880 Garfield elected President. Abrogation of Clayton-Bulwer Treaty demanded. 1881 President Garfield assassinated. Arthur becomes President. 1884 Cleveland elected President. Domination of Republican party ends. Canal Treaty with Nicaragua. 1886 Fisheries dispute with Great Britain. 1888 Bayard-Chamberlain (Fisheries) Treaty. Sackville incident. Harrison elected President. 1889 Condominium of United States, Great Britain, and Germany established in Samoa. 1890 McKinley Tariff Bill passed. 1892 Cleveland re-elected President. Republic proclaimed in Hawaii, and recognised by United States. Treaty for Behring Sea arbitration. 1894 Chicago riots. 1895 Reform of Civil Service. Venezuelan dispute. Beginning of Cuban in- surrection. 1896 McKinley elected President. Venezuelan arbitration agreed on. 1897 General Arbitration Treaty rejected by Senate. Dingley Tariff Act. 1898 Annexation of Hawaii. U. S. S. Maine blown up at Havana. Outbreak of war with Spain. Destruc- tion of Spanish fleets at Manila and Santiago. Capitulation of Santiago. Peace of Paris cedes Philippines and Porto Rico to the United States, and liberates Cuba. 1899 Act for preservation of gold standard. Conference at the Hague. Venezuelan arbitration concluded. Alaska Boundary Conference fails. Treaty with Spain ratified. Insurrection in the Philippines. 1900 McKinley re-elected President Hay-Pauncefote Treaty fails in Senate. 1901 President McKinley assassinated. Roosevelt becomes President. Hay- Pauncefote Treaty supersedes Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. United States Steel Corporation formed. 1902 Venezuelan blockade. American occupation of Cuba ceases.