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Battle of Little Big Horn-Custer and the 7th Calvary was ambushed by Sitting Bull and the Sioux Nation-Greatest Native American victory over the US Army
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Court rules states may regulate warehouse rates
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Started in 1863 by John D. Rockefeller. He built up the company through 1868 to become the largest oil refinery firm in the world. In 1870, the company was renamed Standard Oil Company, after which Rockefeller decided to buy up all the other competition and form them into one large company in 1879.
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Big Business emerge
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Middleton Civil Service Act- provided that Federal Government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that Government employees be selected through competitive exams
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The riot took place in Chicago between rioters and the police. It ended when someone threw a bomb that killed dozens. The riot was suppressed, and in addition with the damaged reputation of unions, it also killed the Knights of Labor, who were seen as anarchists.
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Five member committee to regulate the practices of interstate railroads; banned practices such as pooling and rebates by railroad companies.
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Broke up previous land settlements given to Native Americans in the form of reservations, and separated them into smaller, separate parcels of land to live on.
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act-law passed to outlaw trusts and monopolies.
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In 1890 at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, killed over 240 Indians practicing the Ghost Dance
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Required the U.S. government to purchase nearly twice as much silver as before, but also added substantially to the amount of money already in circulation.
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Fifteen million "new" immigrants flee into the United States
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Repeal of Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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Imposed a direct tax on the incomes of American citizens and corporations, thus declaring the federal income tax unconstitutional.
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Hawaii was annexed
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U.S. receives Philippines, Samoa, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
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Pure Food and Drug Act-passed by Theodore Roosevelt after The Jungle was published.
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Gave the 12 Federal Reserve banks the ability to print money in order to ensure economic stability.
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U.S. troops occupy Vera Cruz
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Lusitania sunk, U. S. intervened.
KKK revived- new KKK was anti-foreign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-pacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, anti-revolutionist, anti-bootlegger, anti-gambling, anti-adultery, and anti-birth control -
Germany issues Sussex pledge-avoided war between Germany and the US over U-boat sinking of commercial ships in Atlantic waters in the early stages of WWI
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Following the Bolshevik success in Russian Revolution in 1919, Americans feared the eventual fate that communism and other radical political forms would take over the nation resulting in "two red scares."
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Treaty of Versailles-puts all the blame on Germany and sets the stage for WWII.
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Eighteenth Amendment prohibits alcoholic beverages.
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From March 6th to 10th, the banks nationwide would all shut down in order to prevent more bank run and bankrupt. The government would then sort things out.
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The new union group that organized large numbers of unskilled workers with the help of the Wagner Act and the National Labor Relations Board.
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FDR's scheme for gaining Supreme Court approval of New Deal legislation.
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The act required that the construction of new public housing units be matched by the removal of an equal number of substandard dwellings from the local housing supply.
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Germany's tactic of discouraging USSR's aggression by promising half of Poland to Stalin. Effectively contributed to Hitler's success in the Western front before its formal invasion of the Soviet Union.
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December 7th, 1941 hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.