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Telegraph
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Homestead act
When someone payed for the land and lived there for 5 years they got 160 acres for free -
End of Civil war
Fighted for slavery, North verses South -
End of reconstruction
The peroid of rebuilding -
Transcontinental railroad
a railroad that conected the east and west of the U.S. made traveling easier -
Boss Tweed jailed
Leader of political machine in New York city -
Battle of little bighorn
250 Soldiers verses thousands of indian warriors. Greatest and last victory for the indians -
Telephone
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Chinese Exclusion act
Prohibited chinese workers to enter the U.S. for 10 years -
Time zones
4 time zones in the U.S. each 1 hour past the next -
Pendleton act
set up examinations for federal jobs -
Dawes act
Eliminated native american life, no private property, and the nomadic tradion -
Wounded Knee
When someone shot, fighting started, more then 200 sioux and 25 soudiers were killed -
Sherman anti-trust act
can be no more monopolies, one store cannot own the entire trade buissness -
Ellis island
Where immigrants checked into before entering the U.S. -
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