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In 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner published The Gilded Age
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Charles Guiteau Assassinates President James Garfield
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Populist Party Emerges Out Of Farmers Alliance Movement
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Coxey's Army Marches On Washington; Pullman Strike Paralyzes Railroad Traffic
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Florence Kelley, a founder of Chicago’s Hull House, organizes the National Consumers’ League to advocate better working conditions for women and children, health care, enforcement of child-labor laws, and a minimum wage. The League demonstrates the increased political clout of women in the Progressive era.
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President William McKinley Assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt Assumes Presidency
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Frank Norris’s novel, The Octopus, uses a real incident between California wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad to illustrate social conflicts in the age of industrial capitalism. The book exemplifies “naturalism,” a literary style conveying the struggles of people against overwhelming forces.
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President Roosevelt begins his “trust-busting” crusade by bringing J.P. Morgan’s Northern Securities Company to court for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. Throughout his two terms in office, Roosevelt uses the act in an ongoing effort to break up business monopolies.
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To alleviate tension between labor and management demonstrated by long, bitter strikes, President Roosevelt asks Congress to authorize a Department of Commerce and Labor. The Department regulates workplace affairs and engages in “trust-busting” before being split, in 1913, into two separate departments.
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Meat Inspection Act Passes; Pure Food And Drug Act Enacted
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Interracial Coalition Forms NAACP
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Triggers First Factory Inspection Laws
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German U-Boat Sinks RMS Lusitania
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Pancho Villa's Forces Attack Columbus, New Mexico
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Germany Sends The Secret Zimmermann Telegram; Woodrow Wilson Delivers Peace Without Victory Speech; U.S. Declares War On Germany
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U.S. Soldiers Engaged Germans In The Argonne Forest; Wilson Issues His Fourteen points
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Warren G. Harding Elected President With Landslide Popular Vote
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Henry Ford Sells Model Ts For $300; Congress Enacts National Origins Act, Establishing Quotas For Immigration
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John Scopes Found Guilty Of Teaching Teaching Evolution In Tennessee
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Herbert Hoover Elected President
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Marks The Year That The First Bank Panic Occurs, In Early January. The Dust Bowl Began This Year Also, Which Ruined Many U.S. Farmers Crops And Led To National Food Panics And Stealing, Especially In Urban Areas, Such As New York City.
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After A Second Bank Panic In Early January, The Reconstruction Finance Corp, Also Known As The RFC Is Created Under The Guide Of President Herbert Hoover To Provide Financial Assistance To Local And State Governments.
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The U.S. Great Depression Hit Its Worst Point, With Nearly Half Of All Banks Failed And 25% Of People Unemployed Franklin Roosevelt, FDR, Is Elected President With His New Deal.
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World War ll Begins In Europe, Marking A Turnaround In The European Economy, Witch Was Also In A Great Depression.
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France And Great Britain Declared War On Germany
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Lend Lease Begins; Japanese Planes Bomb U.S. Naval Base At Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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Fair Employment Practices Committee Instituted; U.S. Navy Defeats Japan At Midway; U.S. Begins Internment Of Japanese Americans
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Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, And Joseph Stalin Meet In Tehran; U.S. Troops Invade Italy
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The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent.
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The Cuban Revolution Included Many Years Of Hardship, Guerrilla Warfare And Propaganda Battles. Many People In Cuba Were Disgusted By The Power Grab. Ragged Rebels Began The Process Of Driving Out Forces Loyal To The Dictator
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The Berlin Wall Was Constructed By The German Democratic Republic.
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The Fall Of The Berlin Wall Happened Nearly As Suddenly As Its Rise. As Communism Began To Falter In Poland, Hungary, And Czechoslovakia, Exodus Points Were Opened To The West. Very Quickly, The Berlin Wall Was Inundated With People From Both Sides.
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