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A steel making process is named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856. -
In the first week of July 1858, Green Russell and Sam Bates found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek that yielded about 20 troy ounces (622 grams) of gold, the first significant gold discovery in the Rocky Mountain region. -
Abraham Lincoln signed it in 1862, they were laws in which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead. -
Act that allows for the creation of land-grant colleges in the US. -
Built between 1863-1869 to join eastern and western halves of the US. -
The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne against the US.
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ORganized in texas, soon spread to other states.
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He invented the lightbulbs that we still used to this day. -
first government-run boarding school for Native American children
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The first law restricting immigration into the United States.
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His company flipped the switch with their power station and provided hundreds of homes with electricity and lights. -
The entire Statue was completed and assembled in Paris between 1881 and 1884.
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National federation of labor unions in the United States.
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Federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry
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Regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.
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He published his book of photos, "How the Other Half Lives"
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The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783
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Law which grants the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce.
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Massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the US Army.
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He believed the strength and vitality of American identity lay in its land and vast frontier.
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In 1898, the United States annexed the Philippines after the Spanish american war.
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walkout by Pullman Palace Car Company factory workers
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Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality,
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US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
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Began because of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, which led to the United States intervening in the Cuban War of Independence.
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The Hawaiian Islands were annexed by a joint resolution.
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Law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.
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The artificial waterway in Panama connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America.
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The Jungle is a fictional novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair.
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The first German submarine, the U-1, was built in 1905
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A case in which the Court held that New York forbidding bakers from working more than 60 hours a week or 10 hours a day violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Prohibited sale of misbranded food and drugs in interstate commerce
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Case in which the Court found that limiting the number of work for women did not violate the right to contract in the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Case about immigration.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People .
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Electing senators by popular vote is now passed.
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Created federal reserve system.
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Ford Motor Company team decided to try the moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process.
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The act prohibits anti-competitive mergers, predatory and discriminatory pricing, and other forms of unethical corporate behavior.
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U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorsed the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I.
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World War I was a major conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918. It was fought between two groups, the Allies and the Central Powers.
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A german submarine sunk the Lusitania and all of it's ammunition and stuff.
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Managed the induction of some 2.8 million men into the armed forces over the next two years and abolished the bounty system.
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infusion of American troops and resources into the western front finally tipped the scale in the Allies' favor. Germany signed an armistice agreement.
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the movement to prohibit alcohol in the us.
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prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of gender.
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Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States.
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Also known as the monkey trial.