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It excluded Chinese and made small efforts to include women and blacks. Worked for Arbitration of industrial disputes and 8-hour workday
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Grant defeats seymour for presidency in the election.
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The two railroad companies building it finally met.
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Barred “nonproducers” professional gamblers, lawyers, bankers, and stockholders Campaigned for economic and social reform, including codes for safety and health as well as an 8-hour workdays
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established by rockefeller. sought to eliminate the middlemen and squeeze out competitors. Flourished in an era of completely free enterprise
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Some people created a fake company, the credit mobilier construction company. They hired themselves to build the railraod to inflate price.
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people woried about the money situation because too much of it had been spent or loaned out.
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To aid in the Civil War, liquor taxes were increased. People in government took money from the Whiskey excise tax revenue, including Grant’s secretary
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provided for the replacement of the Civil War fractional currency by silver coins
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guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in "public accommodations"
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He taughed the deaf. created the phone for communications
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Southern Democrats would acknowledge Hayes as President
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Edison was considered dumb, but was very smart and invented a lot of things.
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President Garfield suffered and died from a massive heart attack
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Prohibited all Chinese immigration until 1943
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Strike that was organized by the Knights of Labor. A dynamite bomb was thrown that killed 11 and injured over 100 people, including police
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Created by Samuel Gompers. Consisted of a federation of self-governing national unions, each of which kept its independence. The AFL would unify its overall strategy and pool funds, enabling them to ride out prolonged strikes
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Prohibited rebates and pools. Required the railroads to publish their rates openly. Forbade unfair discrimination against shippers. Outlawed charging more for a short haul than for a long one over the same line
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Boosted rates to their highest peacetime level ever (48.4%)
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Declared every contract, combination, or conspiracy in which interstate trade was restricted to be illegal and Corporate monopolies were exposed to federal prosecution if found to conspire in restraining trade
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Wealth Against Commonwealth – criticized the Standard Oil Company trust
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Distributed federal land to the States on the condition that it be irrigated and settled
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mysteriously blew up in Havana harbor, with a loss of 260 sailors
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The spaniards left the harbor and tried to go home, but got caught in the american blockade. the spanish flet was destroyed and santiago surrendered
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congress annexed Hawaii and granted residents u.s. ctizenship.
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Promised that when the U.S. overthrew Spanish rule in Cuba, the U.S. would give Cubans their indpendence.
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Gave Puerto Ricans a limited degree of self government.
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a superpatriotic group known for heir training in martial arts:
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it was written into the constitution of cuba by the U.S. and in effect, made Cuba a U.S. protectorate.
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addressed the question, "Did the Consitiution follow the flag?" meaning did the U.S. Constitution apply to the newly acquired areas.
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Congress decided on the Panama route
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Authorized the federal government to collect money from the sale of public lands in the dry western States and use the funds for irrigation projects
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heavy fines could now be imposed both on the railroads that gave rebates and on the shippers that excepted them
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The Supreme Court invalidated a New York law establishing a 10-hour day for bakers
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Teddy Roosevelt recieved the peace prize
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The preparation of meat shipped over State lines would be subject to federal inspection
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Designed to prevent the mixing and mislabeling of foods and drugs
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People “running” to banks to get out their money
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It pledged both powers to respect each other’s territorial possessions in the Pacific and to uphold the Open Door in China
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Muller, a laundry owner, challenged the legality of the law, arguing that it violated the “liberty to contract.” He had asked an employee to remain after hours to do an extra load of laundry and was fined $10. Muller refused to pay the fine
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increased the duty on print paper
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a dispute between U.S. Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger
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building caught on fire in new york city, leaving around 175 trapped inside to die.
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Wilson defeats Taft and Roosevelt for presidency
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There were to be at least eight, and no more than 12, private regional Federal reserve banks
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re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%
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allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.
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The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote
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added to the Sherman AntiTrust act. specified particular prohibited conduct, the three-level enforcement scheme, the exemptions, and the remedial measures
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the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of what regulators perceive to be harmfully anti-competitive business practices
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involved all the world's great powers,[5] which were assembled in two opposing alliances
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communist Russia toppled the tsar regime. Russia pulled out of the "capitalist" war, freeing up thousands of Germans on the Russian front to fight the western front in France. Russia pulling out allowed the U.S. fight solidly for Democracy in the war.
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It required the registration of all males between the ages of 18 and 45, and did not allow for a man to purchase his exemption from the draft
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idealistic in tone and primarily a peace program, had certain very practical uses as an instrument for propaganda
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made spying illegal
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can not say bad things about the government,
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prohibiting all alcoholic drinks
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peace treaty forced upon Germany.
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argued that freedom of speech could be revoked when such speech posed a danger to the nation
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giving all American women the right to vote
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Harding's victory lead to the death of the League of Nations
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resulted in a nationwide crusade against those whose Americanism was suspect
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antiforeign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, antipacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, antievolutionist, antibootlegger, antigambling, antiadultery, and anti-birth control. It was pro-Anglo-Saxon, pro-"native" American, and pro-Protestant
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(1920s) Henry Ford, father of the assembly line, created the Model T and erected an immense personal empire on the cornerstone of his mechanical genius
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providing federally financed instruction in maternal and infant health care
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restricting newcomers from Europe in any given year to a definite quota, which was at 3% of the people of their nationality
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formed the National Women's Party in 1923 to campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
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replaced the Quota Act of 1921, cutting quotas for foreigners from 3% to 2%.
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indicted in Tennessee for teaching evolution. was defended by Clarence Darrow, while former presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan prosecuted him. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100.
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became the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
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millions of stocks were sold in a panic. By the end of 1929, two months after the initial crash, stockholders had lost $40 billion. As a result of the crash, millions lost their jobs and thousands of banks closed.
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closed banks to make sure they are stable to reopen. did not allow people to take out money for 5 days
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Gave the Philippine's their indepencence.
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establish a lower tariff for particular imports, it would act unilaterally, taking the foreign country’s tariff rate as fixed.
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imposed a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war
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provided benefits to retirees and the unemployed
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employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects
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Legalized strikes and organizing
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renewed the provisions of the 1935 act for another 14 months. It also forbade all loans or credits to belligerents.
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the Congress passed a joint resolution outlawing the arms trade with Spain
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was passed, allowing for arms trade with belligerent nations on a cash and carry basis, thus in effect ending the arms embargo
