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steel making process
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found gold in pikes peak
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granted each state 30000 acres of land
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allows a maximum exemption amount of $2,500 of one's equity, with a maximum of one acre (1/4 acre minimum) for urban properties and 160 acres if rural.
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completed the trans continental railroad
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A pioneer in the use of photography as an agent of social reform, Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870.
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the statue of liberty was build
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand
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he made an essay about settling west
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The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished ca.
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he made the light bulb
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The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918.
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It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
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The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor.
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The Dawes Act of 1887 regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.
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both the Senate and House passed the Interstate Commerce Act, which applied the Constitution's “Commerce Clause”—granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States
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In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
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The Pullman Strike was two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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Holden v. Hardy, 169 U.S. 366, is a 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 Spanish–American War began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence
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the Hawaiian Islands were annexed by this joint resolution.
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the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago.
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The Reclamation Act of 1902 is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.
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A suit brought by the United States to recover the penalty prescribed by 4 and 5 of the Alien Immigration Act of March 3, 1903
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The boats Nordenfelt I and Nordenfelt II, built to a Nordenfelt design.
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The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America.
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Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a New York State statute that prescribed maximum working hours for bakers violated the bakers' right to freedom of contract under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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The Jungle is a fictional novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government
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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States,
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allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
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created the Federal Reserve System, known simply as "The Fed."
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The Ford Motor Company team decided to try to implement the moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process.
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the act of selling the same product to different buyers and charging different prices based on who is purchasing the goods.
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The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War
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World War I, often abbreviated as WWI or WW1, was a major global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918. It was fought between two coalitions, the Allies and the Central Powers. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia.
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the usa entered the cold war
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Authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription.
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the cold war ends
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The movement to prohibit alcohol
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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.
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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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The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act, was a federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe.
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The Scopes “monkey trial” was the moniker journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.