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U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars
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Made it possible to produce steel as ingots.
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When gold was found in Pikes Peak Colorado it started the "Colorado gold rush" which was a boom in gold prospecting and mining.
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Allowed any adult citizen who would farm the land to have 160 acres of federal land.
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A law that gave millions of acres of western land to the state governments to fund state agricultural colleges.
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The Transcontinental railroad was the first continuous rail road line across the U.S.
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A battle between the Lakota and Cheyenne tribes against the U.S. army in which the native Americans actually won.
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Farmers' Alliance, an American agrarian movement during the 1870s and '80s that sought to improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy.
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Edison built the first high-resistance, incandescent light that worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delayed the filament from melting.
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The United States founded the Carlisle school in 1879 at the site of an old military base, used during the colonial era and the Civil War. Soldiers also used it as an army training school from 1838 to 1871. The same buildings were used for the Indian Industrial School.
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It was a set of laws that prevented Chinese immigrations and Chinese people already in America from becoming citizens.
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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 in France between 1881-and 1884 and was then reassembled in America in 1886. The statue was built to honor the United States' centennial of independence and its friendship with France.
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The American Federation of labor was a national umbrella trade union organized in support of labor reform
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The act was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
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A law allowing the federal government to break up tribal lands.
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A book that stimulated the first significant New York legislation to curb poor conditions in tenement housing.
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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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This Act outlaws all contracts, combinations, and conspiracies that unreasonably restrain interstate and foreign trade.
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A massacre of nearly 300 Lakota people by the U.S. army.
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The Superintendent of the Census of 1890 had declared that all the frontier lands had been settled. This pronouncement led Turner to consider the impact of the frontier and the effects its closing would have on the national identity.
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The most famous and farreaching labor conflict in a period of severe economic depression and social unrest
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A trial that essentially established the constitutionality of racial segregation.
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The US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
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The Spanish-American War of 1898 ended Spain's colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power.
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The Hawaiian islands were officially annexed by the United States.
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The United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago.
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a pioneering environmental law that defined the federal role in western water distribution
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When Upton Sinclair set out to write his 1906 novel The Jungle, he was trying to bring attention to the dismal living and working conditions for immigrants working in the meatpacking industry
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the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York state law setting 10 hours of labour 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 and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency
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was 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 nation's largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization
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That case was a civil action to recover a penalty for importing an alien into the United States to perform labor
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Allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. Prior to its passage, senators were chosen by state legislatures.
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The Ford Motor Company team decided to try to implement the moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process. After much trial and error, in 1913 Henry Ford and his employees successfully began using this innovation at our Highland Park assembly plant.
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Created the Federal Reserve System.
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the Great War began with the assassinations of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, while they were visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia, a country recently annexed into the Austrian Empire.
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Serves as a maritime shortcut that saves time and costs in transporting all kinds of goods.
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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 became a focus for British and American propaganda and was used to bolster recruitment efforts. However, Germany claimed that the sinking was justified because munitions were being carried on board.
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The Lusitania became a focus for British and American propaganda and was used to bolster recruitment efforts. However, Germany claimed that the sinking was justified because munitions were being carried on board.
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with the toll in sunken U.S. merchant ships and civilian casualties rising, Wilson asked Congress for “a war to end all wars” that would “make the world safe for democracy.” A hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, Congress thus voted to declare war on Germany, joining the bloody battle
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Authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. The act eventually required all men between the ages of 21 to 45 to register for military service.
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In 1918, the infusion of American troops and resources into the western front finally tipped the scale in the Allies' favor. Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies on November 11, 1918. World War I was known as the “war to end all wars” because of the great slaughter and destruction it caused
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prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption.
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Granted 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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limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
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was an American legal case in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.