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the first inexpensive industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel.
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Little Dry Creek that yielded about 20 troy ounces (622 grams) of gold
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provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
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set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.”
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the first continuous railroad line across the United States.
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a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne
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cooperatively owned retail stores and marketing organizations.
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high resistance, incandescent electric light
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was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918.
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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 and providing hundreds of homes with electricity
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was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States and is recognized as a universal symbol of freedom and democracy.
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winning economic benefits for its members through collective bargaining
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a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices
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regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.
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revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.
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the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.
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to alleviate the poor living conditions of poor people by exposing these conditions to the middle and upper classes.
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nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army
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the farmer's advance
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two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression.
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thirteenth and 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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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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the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley.
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the people of the Philippines sought to resist annexation into the United States and establish a country of their own
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federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.
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federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West
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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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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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was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court
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to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry
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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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A law that strengthened the rate-making power of the Interstate Commerce Commission
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an interracial group of activists
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the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
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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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Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
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returned to British waters with the obligation of applying prize rules.
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was a major global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918
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prohibits price discrimination
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was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland
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authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription.
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voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany
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after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent
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illegalized the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol
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granted women the right to vote.
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limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
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was a federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe.
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was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925