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people migrated from the west to the Midwest beause the governement was giving away free land , due to overcrowding in the cities
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May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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factories and machines were starting to be built
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political machine that began to rise
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Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-born American scientist invented the telephone
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1877, Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed, thereby ending Reconstruction.
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in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb
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The United States experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the 19th century and from the 1880s to 1920. People was looking for better economy, and freedom of religion
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Chinese people were banned from entering the u.s due to there being a lot of people in the country
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is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.
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1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
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The Dawes Act of 1887, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
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house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, opened to recently arrived European immigrants.
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article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy
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shows how people in tenement live
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act to help stop all monopolies
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gold was discovered
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workers wanted better wages
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labor dispute
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On September 6, 1901, William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition
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act that tells businesses they should have a clean place, and all food must be clean too
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Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States
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automobile produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first affordable car
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation
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author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist, who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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n Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System
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