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Seward arranges for U.S to buy Alaska from Russia. People thought this was crazy and called it "Sewards Folly."
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Thomas Edison creates and later perfects the incandescent light bulb. He also invents the system to distribute electricy to homes.
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Pearl Harbor Naval Base is bulit in Hawaii and is later attacked in WWII.
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The first railroad progress statistics were published and read by the public for the first time. there was 2,000 workers killed and 20,000 workers injured.
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At this time, the Carnegie Steel Company is making more steel than all of Great Britain's steel companies combined
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The U.S. government wanted to claim Hawaii and to do this, they had to overthrow the queen.
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Hawaii is officially a territory of the U.S. It was completely against the wishes of the Hawaiians and they didn't have a say in any of it.
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Women start to demand equal rights. Mary "Mother" Jones leads 80 mill worker children in a lurid parade, showing off their horrid injuries sustained while working, to President Theodore Roosevelt's home. Roosevelt then passed the child labor laws after this.
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While visting Sarajevo, Gavrilo Princip walked up and shot Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.
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Jeannette Rankin was the first woman in Congress. She was the only person in Congress to vote "no" to go to war with Germany.
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Manufacturing, selling, and transportation of alcohol is made illegal. This could not stop people from drinking, so people became bootleggers,people who smuggled alcohol.
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Women start wearing close fitted felt hats, short, colorful, waistless dresses, silk stockings, pumps and beads. They also cut their hair so it was in a bob and dyed it black. They did many different dances such as the fox trot, camel walk, and Charlleston.
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Germany and many other countries are plunged into depression. Money is so useless in Germany that children make towers out of it as if they were blocks.
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In Chicago, a gangster named Al Capone ran an illegal alcohol business that brought in over $60 million dollars a year. It was supposed that Al Capone was responsible for 522 gang killings.
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Charles A. Lindbergh flew in the "Spirit of St. Louis" over the Atlantic Ocean and Ianded in Paris. He got a $25,000 prize and when he anded everyone celebrated.
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Stock market falls drastically and people start to panic and sell stocks, but many people borrowed most of their money from the bank and couldn't pay it back. Hence the bank failure.
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Herbert hoover, President at the time, authorized the buliding of the Boulder Dam, later changed to the Hoover Dam.
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Germany, wiht its morle fairly beaten is looking for someone to rise up and tell them that everything will get better. They find this leader in Adolf Hitler.
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The second World War has begun and Hitler made an alliance with Japan. On this day, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii.
