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The boats Nordenfelt I and Nordenfelt II, built to a Nordenfelt design, followed in 1890
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a steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort
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Green Russell and Sam Bates found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek that yielded about 20 troy ounces (622 grams) of gold
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the Homestead Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and five years of continuous residence on that land.
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allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales of federally-owned land, often obtained from indigenous tribes through treaty, cession, or seizure.
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is recognized as one of our country's biggest achievements and one of mankind's biggest accomplishments.
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The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States.
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand
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The Farmers' Alliance was first organized in Texas in the mid-1870s and soon spread to other states and territories in the South and Midwest.
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Edison had built his first high-resistance, incandescent electric light.
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, opened in 1879 as the first government-run boarding school for Native American children
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It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States
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His company flipped the switch on his Pearl Street power station on September 4, 1882, providing hundreds of homes with electricity
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was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO.
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the Constitution's “Commerce Clause”—granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”—to regulating railroad rates.
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egulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.
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The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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A pioneer in the use of photography as an agent of social reform, Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870.
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was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States
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widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894.
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A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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law case in which the US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
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began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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extended U.S. territory into the Pacific
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the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago
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The act set aside money from sales of semi-arid public lands for the construction and maintenance of irrigation projects
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The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America.
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was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a New York State statute that prescribed maximum working hours for bakers violated the bakers' right to freedom of contract under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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The Jungle is a fictional novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century.
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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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A case in which the Court found that limiting the number of work hours for women did not violate the right to contract in the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The NAACP was created in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans
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That act provided, among other things, that anyone receiving, concealing, or buying goods, wares, or merchandise, knowing them to have been illegally imported
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of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators
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Henry Ford and his employees successfully began using this innovation at our Highland Park assembly plant.
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It was implemented to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.
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It was fought between two coalitions, the Allies and the Central Powers. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia.
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This is the act of selling the same product to different buyers and charging different prices based on who is purchasing the goods.
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The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War
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the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany.
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AN ACT to provide for the common defense by increasing the strength of the Armed Forces of the United States, including the reserve components thereof, and for other purposes.
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the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I
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to the Constitution prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
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believed that the strength and the vitality of the America identity lay in its land and vast frontier.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
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A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians
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The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes,