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Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry. Carnegie Steel was the largest steel manufacturing company at the time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Carnegie_circa_1878_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17976.jpg
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The U.S accepts the Statue of Liberty as a gift from France.
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Homer Plessy argued that his equal right to equal protection by law was violated in Southern Louisiana. The Supreme Court decided that segregration was legal as long as the seperated utilities such as schools were to those of the whites'. Which they hardly ever were.
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The Sherman Antittrust Act was made to try and curve the power of the large corporations during the time period. However, it did not work until the after the turn of the century.
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A new reception center in Ellis Island opens for immigrants.
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American Business Groups, along with the help of U.S Marines overthrow Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani and set up a new government.
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McKinley was assassinated in 1901, so his Vice President at the time, Theodore Roosevelt, took over as president.
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The USS Maine was sunk off the coast of Havana killing many American Sailors. Many Americans were asking the U.S to declare war on Spain.
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The United States declares war on Spain after the USS Maine was sunk.
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The Treaty of Paris is signed in Paris, France. The Spanish government agrees to grant independence to Cuba and give Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
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The "Boxers" were a secret society of Chinese, whom did not want foreign influence imposed upon them. The rebellion resulted in the death of over 300 foreigners and Christian Chinese.
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William McKinley is assassinated in New York by an anarchist. Theodore Roosevelt takes his place.
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The corollary was a number of messages sent by Roosevelt to Congress. In the messages Roosevelt denied that the U.S wanted any more terroritory.
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W.E.B Du Bois helped found the movement, the movement promoted full civil liberties for African Americans.
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The Jungle exposed the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded to fight civil rights.
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The conflict would soon become World War 1.
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And they join the allies in World War 1.
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An armistice between the feuding nations is signed and the hostilities begin to die down.
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The meeting was on the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.
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19th Amendment
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He died while in office, and his Vice President at the time, Calvin Cooldige took over as President.
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Herbert Hoover tries to get Congress to pass a public works project which will help raise jobs and employment.
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FDR died of an enormous brain hemorrage.
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Part of the New Deal
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Albert Einstein told FDR about making an Atomic Bomb and so the Manhattan Project was started.
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The U.S declares its neutrality in the European war after Germany invaded Poland
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Allowed US to lease its war material surplus to Great Britain.
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After the attack on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese, it led the US to send their troops in to World War 2 and fight.
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Fought on the Midway Islands in the Pacific.
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Allied forces stormed the beaches of France to begin the invasion of Europe.Over 150,000 soldiers fought to gain access to Paris.
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30,000 Marines landed on the beaches of Iwo Jima that day.
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American troops invade Okinawa.
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Unconditional surrender in Reims, France made by Germany.
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The first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico.
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North Korea invades South Korea with Soviet weapons.
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The Armistie was signed by the US,North Korea, South Korea, and The Republic Of China.
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This action resulted in the arrest of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
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He was assassinated during a car ride through Philadelphia.
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For jobs and freedom for African Americans, was home to Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech.
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Took over after JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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He was assassinated by James Earl Ray.
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Richard Nixon is the only President to resign from office, he resigned in order to avoid impeachment.
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He wanted to avoid the impeachment process from the Watergate Scandal. And the tapings of the talks in the White Housr.
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The agreements were between Israel and Egypt. President Jimmy Carter was peacemaker and witnessed the signing. After the signing Egypt accepted Israel as a country.
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Sixty-three Americans are among ninety hostages taken at the American embassy in Tehran by three thousand students.
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Reagan was shot in the chest when he was walking to his limo in Washington D.C.
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Proposal for the development of technology to intercept missiles by Ronald Reagan.
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Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan engage in a five hour summit conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
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A day later the people begin to destroy it and bring it down.
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This begins the US involvement in the Gulf War
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After Iraq takes its forces out of Kuwait and light the oil fields on fire.
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The World Trade Center is bombed by Islamic terrorists. A van parked under the North Tower exploded.
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Creates a free trade zone between Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
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Sates the U.S. wants to remove Saddam Hussein from power and replace it with a democracy.
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It begins with the bombing of Baghdad
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First African American President
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The Health Care Reform was reconciled and both parties wanted it to be changed so that it could be accepted by both houses.
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US Congresses passes legislation for a $700 billion bailout due to the greed of Wall Street Firms and the price for a barrel of oil being at its highest, almost $140 per barrel.
