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Transcontinental Railroad is completed in 1869. This railroad connected the east and the west. It was a continuous railroad.
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Alexander Graham Bell creates the first telephone. He got a patent on the device and created it a couple of days later.
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The first controlled airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina is made by the Wright Brothers.
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Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks. Kills 1,500 people. It was a British passenger ship.
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The Great Gatsby was published by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Takes place during the Roaring 20's.
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The first women to complete a trans-Atlantic flight is Amelia Earhart.
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The Star-Spangled Banner is designated by Congress to become the national anthem.
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The Dust Bowl is created by a series of dust storms in the states of the Great Plains. Led to badly damaged agriculture.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor which causes the United States to enter World War II. It happened on December 7, 1941.
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The US drops atomic bombs on Japan, on August 6th and 9th of 1945.
