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*John O'Sullivan started the idea of continental expansion
*United States expanded borders -
*U.S. wanted to expand the power outside of the borders
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*After a 13 day siege Mexico reclaimed the Alamo Mission
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*Economic growth in the United States
*Factory, mining, and railroad expansion -
*People were allowed to claim land
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*Freed the slaves in the Southern states
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*Help the South become part of the Union
*Prohibited racial discrimination -
*Congress can not create laws that interfere with U.S. citizens
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*Defeated Horatio Seymour
*18th president of the U.S. -
*No U.S. citizens could be denied the right to vote because of race
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*Second Treaty of Fort Laramie had been broken which resulted in a battle
*Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho victory over Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer -
*Federal Government was allowed to break up tribal territory
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*Fix the corruption caused by party bosses, industrialization, and urbanization
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*Lakota tribe against the U.S. Army
*Hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children dies
*Not sure who started it -
*Steel producing company founded by Andrew Carnegie
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*U.S. overthrows Hawaii's monarchy government
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*"Separate but Equal"
*African American refused to move into a train car for blacks -
*USS Maine mysteriously sunk
*America blamed Spanish for the explosion
*Partially resulting in the Spanish-American War -
*War between America and Spain over Cuba's independence
*Treaty of Paris was formed -
*A novel describing the unsanitary environment of meat packing plants
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*Manhattan industrial fire that could have been prevented if building regulations were a thing
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*Government breaking up monopoly's and trusts
*Teddy Roosevelt used government power to shut down Standard Oil -
*People protested because they wanted alcohol to be sold
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*Cut traveling distance for ships
*Allowed ships to travel through land and cut travel distance by 2/3 -
*Makes boats able to go through land
*Cuts travel distance by 2/3 -
*Prohibited sales of products made by children under the age of 14 who are working in factories
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*Prohibited the denial of a U.S. citizen the right to vote based on their sex
