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Secretary of State William Seward buys Alaska from Russia from 7.2 million dollars.
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Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed.
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The usual date given for the "birth" of vaudeville is October 24, 1881 at New York's Fourteenth Street
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Jacob Riis writes a book on the struggles of the poor called "How the Other Half Lives"
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Federal Government establishes
Bureau of Immigration & selects Ellis Island
as site of new immigration station for port of
New York -
She began a newspaper attacking lynchings and racism.
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Ellis Island opens it doors
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Gold was discovered in northwestern Canada.
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Conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas
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Congress declares war on Spain
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140,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike for increased wages, a 9-hour work day and the right to unionize.
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Established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax.
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Ferdinand is assassinated by Gavrilo Princip
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Global War that originated in Europe. War to end all wars
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Russia mobilizes its vast army to intervene against Austria-Hungary in favor of its ally, Serbia.
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A German submarine sinks the passenger liner Lusitania. The ship carries 1,198 people, 128 of them Americans.
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movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West
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America officially joins World War I
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Suffragettes began to picket the White House for women's rights
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A statute or order forbidding a particular action.
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Women get to vote.
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A law is created in Tennessee that made is a crime to teach evolution
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Charles Lindbergh flew a solo flight with the spirit of st. Louis across the Atlantic
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he American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression.
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Period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies
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Congress passes the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, steeply raising import duties in an attempt to protect American manufactures from foreign competition.
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Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency.
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Enacted by Congress in June 1933 and was one of the measures by which President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to assist the nation's economic recovery during the Great Depression.
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Germany invades Poland
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the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor draws United States into World War II. Mobilization for war finally lifts the American economy permanently out of the Great Depression.
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The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II.
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Victory in Europe. Acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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Victory over Japan. Japan surrenders
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state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc.
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Flights to Berlin to drop off
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Those living in Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation.
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conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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NLF was born
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President John F. Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women described the inequalities women still faced in the U.S. economy.
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JFK is shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
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The Vietnam war ends
