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Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence
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A transcontinental railroad is a contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders
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Prior to the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s, manufacturing was often done in people's homes, using hand tools or basic machines.
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Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th
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was the culmination of work done by many individuals, and involved an array of lawsuits founded upon the patent claims of several individuals and numerous companies.
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The second sense focuses on the attempted transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877, as directed by Congress, with the reconstruction of state and society. With the three Reconstruction Amendment
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Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp and on October 14, 1878, Edison filed his first patent application for "Improvement In Electric Lights
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North Carolina was largely untouched by the first two waves of immigration to the United States. Between 1840 and 1889, the U.S. received 14.3 million immigrants
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United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
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federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.
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is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices
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is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June[4] of 1889[5] that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich
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was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located in the Near West Side
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is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890
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The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899.
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It served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle classes. This work inspired many reforms of working-class
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The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s.
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was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892
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was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law. It pitted the American Railway Union
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Republicans and progressive Hulu moose party
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William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York
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American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
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For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by W. E. B
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Income tax
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The Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States
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Political party Republican
Domestic Policy 3C’s 16th/17th amendments -
Vote two senators
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is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
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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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Political party Democrat
Domestic policy: Clayton Anti-Trust Act,
National Parks Service Federal Reserve Act,
Act, 18th/19th amendment