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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph.
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Gave 160 acres of land to a settler who paid a filling fee and lived on the land for five years.
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A war in which Americans fought other Americans.
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Sitting Bull gatered Sioux and Cheyenne warriors along the Little Bighorn River.
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Where the continent would span and coonnect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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Headed New York City's Demoocratic political machine in the 1860s and 1870s.
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The Civil War saved the Union but shook the nations to its roots.
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Prohibited Chinese workers from entering the United States for 10 years.
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All communities in each zone would share the same time, and each zone was exactly one hour apart from the zones on either sides of it.
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Established the Civil Service Commission to set up competitive examinations for federal jobs.
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Congress changed the government policy.
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The law sought "to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraignt and monopoly."
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Several hundred Lakota and Sioux fled in fear after Sitting Bull's death.
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Examiners at the centers recorded the immigrants' names-sometimes shortening or simplifying a name they found too difficult to write.