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A steel-making process in which impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation.
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The Homestead Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and five years of continuous residence on that land.
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Federal act to set aside land to create colleges to "benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts".
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The Farmers' Alliance was first organized in Texas in the mid-1870s and soon spread to other states and territories in the South and Midwest. One of the group's main goals was to form cooperatives. Farmers set up cooperatively owned retail stores and marketing organizations.
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Was a law passed that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.The law made exceptions for merchants, teachers, students, travelers, and diplomats.
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Thomas Edison created the first electrical lighting in New York City.
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The American Federation of Labor was a national federation of labor unions.
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the law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals.
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This act regulated the trade between foreign nations among the several states.
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A law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce. It was passed by Congress.
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The wounded knee massacre was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
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The Pullman strike was a nationwide boycott of the U.S. rail system.
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This case was a Supreme Court decision ruling 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 was 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 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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Lochner V New York 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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This was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.
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Muller V Oregon was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men. The posed question was whether women's liberty to negotiate a contract with an employer should be equal to a man's.
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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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he National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans.
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Declares voters can vote directly for U.S. senators.
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The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.
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he Clayton Act seeks to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency.
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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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The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
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Prohibited the use or sale of alcohol in the United States.
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Gave women the constitutional right to vote.
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Limited the number of immigrants allowed in the country.
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determined whether certain immigrants could come into the country or not.
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Trial in which a school teacher in Tennessee taught evolution when not allowed.