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The first german built submarine made by Wilhelm Bauer
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The first inexpensive industrial process of steel by the burning off of impure metals without fuel, creating pure steel cheaply
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The first significant discovery of gold in the Rocky Mountain region by Green Russell and Sam Bates
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Granted adult heads of families 160 acres for a small fee and five years of residency on said land in order to accelerate westward expansion.
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An act that allowed African Americans to be included at The United States Land-Grant University Higher Educations System without discrimination
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The completion of the transcontinental railroad across the US, opening western and asian markets even further to eastern america.
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A battle between us army's general custer against the Lakota and Cheyenne tribes which lead to custer's defeat and subsequent death, which became a rallying point for the us government to increase efforts to subdue the native americans
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A cooperatively owned chain of retail stores and marketing organizations in Texas, then to the South and Midwest to form cooperatives
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An act that authorized the president to break up reservation land and parcel it out to individuals in order to break up Native American lands, get rid of their Native Cultures, and make space for white anglos.
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Thomas Edison patented the light bulb, replacing gas and oil lamps as a main source of light
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The first government run boarding school for Native American children with the goal of assimilating them into white american society to "Kill the Indian, Save the Man", in Carlisle Pennsylvania
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The restriction of immigration imposed on Chinese nationals, more specifically, a 10 year ban on Chinese laborers
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Edison's company flipped the switch of his Pearl Street Power Station and lit up NYC, providing electricity to hundreds
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A union that focused on the right to bargain for wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions for the working class Americans
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An act passed by congress that regulated trade with foreign nations, which as a result, made the railroad industry the first industry to be subject to the federal government
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A complement of photos taken by Jacob Riis made into a book showing of the poverty of New York t society which sparked the first legislation to improve poor conditions in tenement housing in New York
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A book written by Alfred T Mahan on theories of Naval knowledge that lead to the US government creating a rapid expansion of the naval force
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The first federal act to outlaw monopolistic business practices
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The slaughter of hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children by the US Army 7th Calvary Regiment in order to suppress a religious movement to resist the encroachment of white settlers on their lands
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An essay written by Fredrick Turner Jackson which highlighted how American expansion westward eliminated much of the European society and created a unique, American, society.
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Widespread railroad strike and boycotts that lead to severe disruption of rail traffic in the US midwest due to George M Pullman refusing to meet with workers to hear their requests for higher wages, lower rents, and better working conditions
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Supreme Court case that upheld Louisiana State law that separate but equal accommodations for whites and blacks stay in place
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US labor law case in which the US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional
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The beginning of the Spanish American War, sparked by sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harber which resulted in a delcaration of war against Spain by the US
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The formal annexation of Hawaii that ended an internal struggle of Hawaiian natives and american businessmen for control of the Hawaiian government and the fear of Hawaii becoming apart of a European nation
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The annexation of the Philippines after being bought by the US from Spain for $20 million and the defeat of a rebellion against the annexation
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A federal law passed by Congress that funded irrigation projects for arid lands of 20 states in the American West
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The Panama Canal, an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for marine trade.
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US supreme court decision that the maximum hours for bakers in New York State was unconstitutional to the 14th amendment
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A book written by Upton Sinclair to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry, of which includes diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat which lead to food and safety laws to be passed.
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The prohibition of the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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A US Supreme Court case in which the court decided whether a state could limit the amount of hours a woman could work while not also limiting the hours of men
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP) was a group of activists in support of colored African Americans who came together to form an organization with the goal of advancing justice for African Americans
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Set a penalty for those in violation of the Alien Immigration Act
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"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote"
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The startup of Ford Motor Company's first full assembly line, a large innovation in the manufacturing business
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The creation of the Federal Reserve System to establish economic stability by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy
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An act that made both substantive and procedural modifications to federal antitrust law that sought to capture anticompetitive practices by prohibiting particular types of conduct not deemed in the best interest of a competitive market
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The beginning of the first world war, sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which lead one alliance after another from a small conflict to a massive war in Europe
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A British ocean liner sunk by a German u-boat torpedo that carried american passengers
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The US enters WW1 after rising tensions against Germany, events such as The Lusitania sinking and the Zimmerman Telegraph.
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Allowed the US government to build up an army for service in WW1 through conscription
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The prohibition of manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors in the United States
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WW1 ends in ally victory as the west front goes silent and an armistice is met between Germany and the Allied Nations, beginning the first steps to the end of WW1
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"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex", women allowed to vote
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The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
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A law that restricted immigration through the establishment of quotas putting all through discrimination
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The completion of the Statue of Liberty in New York, symbolizing the alliance between France and the United States during the American Revolution.
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A trial in Dayton Tennessee after a teacher was accused of teaching evolution in his class, violating Tennessee's Butler Act