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Christopher Scholes invented the first practical and modern typewriter.
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The first transcontinental railroad was completed, starting in the Central Pacific, building eastward from San Fransicso, and meeting the Union Pacific building westward from Omaha, Nebraska, and met at Promontary Point, Utah.
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Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire
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Edison recieved his patent for the incandescent light bulb.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act placed strict limitations on the number of Chinese allowed to enter the United States and the number allowed to become naturalized citizens.
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The Statue Of Liberty was paced in the NYC harbour as a welcoming to America for the immagrants.
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Workers at George Pullman's factory refused to work when pay cuts and firings were announced.
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Hurbert Booth invents a compact and modern vaccum cleaner.
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Guglielmo Macroni invents the radio reciever.
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King Camp Gillette invents the disposable safety razor.
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Gave congress the power to collect the income tax.
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Allowed for the direct election of senators rather than having them appointed from the state legislatures. It was a progressive effort to increase democracy
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gave women the right to vote
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The US passed a temporary block on immigration that said a maximum of 350,000 immigrants from th Eastern hemisphere could come each year and that the immigrants each year could not exceed 3% of the nationally present in the U.S. according to the 1910 census.
