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The electrical telegraph is a system that transmitted electric signals over wires from location to location that translated into a message.
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The government was giving ou free land for farmers to farm and live on, but they had to live on the land for 5 years.
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Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America which was the Confederacy.
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The First Transcontinental Railroad , built in the United States between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and Union Pacific Railroad.
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Biggest and also the last win for the native americans.
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Northerners were tired of a decade of Reconstruction efforts and had become less interested in the South with the rise of speculation and profit-making in the Gilded Age and then the hardships of the Depression of 1873.
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The Chinese were banned from the U.S for 10 years, and then got banned for another 10 years.
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Originally created to facilitate scheduling multiple trains on single tracks.
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The Dawes Act, with its emphasis on individual land ownership, also had a negative impact on the unity, self-government, and culture of Indian Culture.
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This act required the United States Federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies and organizations suspected of violating the Act.
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Surrounding their camp was a force of U.S. troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors.
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Ellis Island was the former federal immigration processing station which processed over 12 million third class and steerage immigrants between 1892 and 1954 and was named after the former owner of the island, Samuel Ellis.
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