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Labor unions started
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Massive immigration to America
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Carnegie builds steel mill
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First telephone conversation - Alexander Graham Bell
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Edison invents electric light bulb
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Electricity for cities
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Progressive Era
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The panic of 1893
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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Wright brothers make first airplane flight
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Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line
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U.S. opens the Panama Canal
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World War I starts
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World War I
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Russian Revolution
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World-wide Depression
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Joe Louis wins the Heavyweight title
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World War II
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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First atomic bomb exploded
