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Was a naval submarines operated by Germany during the war
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Bessemer Process made it possible to produce steel as ingots
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gold was fine in pikes peaks
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provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
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the Morrill Land Grant College Act of 1862 set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.”
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The Transcontinental r/r completed reduced time travel and helped unified the US
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a battle between the Lakota and other plaine Indians against Custer
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The Farmers alliance was created.
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Thomas Edison invented the light bulb
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a Indian school
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this was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States
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the first electrical lighting in New York City signaled a new era of urban illumination.
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the Statue of Liberty was built
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the American federation of labor was founded as an umbrella organization for unions of skilled craft workers.
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made the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation
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An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations
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Turner writes an essay of settling the west
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Alfred T Mahan published The Influence of Sea Power
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the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices
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the first significant New York legislation to curb poor conditions in tenement housing
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the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota
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a widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the U.S. Midwest
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a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution
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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 United States declared war against Spain.
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extended U.S. territory into the Pacific
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the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago.
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Act that provided federal funds for the construction of dams, reservoirs, and canals in the West.
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The Panama Canal was built. It took ten years
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Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry
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the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York state law setting 10 hours of labor a day as the legal maximum in the baking trade.
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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court considered 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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the NAACP was found
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the 17th Amendment modified Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
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the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile
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established a central bank for the United States and fostered stability in the country's banking system
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the first world war begun
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one of the acts that are the foundation of antitrust laws in the United States and are codified in Title 15 of the United States Code.
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The Lusitania sunk
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the united states enters WW1
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authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription
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World War 1 ends
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prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
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legally guarantees American women the right to vote
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limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
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A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.