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This was known as the Battle of the grass and often times referred to as the Custers Last Stand. Thís battle was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Siox, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes. -
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president in one of the most controversial elections in American history, despite losing the popular vote and doubts about the validity of several electoral votes.
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Thomas Edison was the first successful person to invent the light bulb.
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James A. Garfield won the fourth post-war presidential election in a row for the Republican Party.
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The landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court established the doctrine of "separate but equal," which laid the foundation for decades of racial segregation in the South.
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This war was triggered by the explosion of the battleship USS Mine in the Havana Harbor, Cube, which Americans widely blamed on Spain. -
On this day the 25th president was shot and killed by Leon Czolgosz.
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This award was awarded in Stockholm, Sweden in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
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To prevent a Japanese expansion in the Pacific Congress had passed an act in 1908 to build a naval yard in Pearl Harbor, and President Taft had announced this in 1909. It was said at the time to be the world's largest naval base, and its construction was budgeted for around $3 million.
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On April 15, 1912, The RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the Northern Atlantic and sank thus killing over a thousand civilians. This became a very prominent part of American history. -
World War I caused over 40 million deaths and casualties. Also known as the Great War, WWI was the first international conflict of its kind. -
Founded on September 26, 1914, by Woodrow Wilson, the Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil U.S. antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection.
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Is the Costales defense on search and rescue. They worked to save the lives of those who have been affected.
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The allies signed an armistice with Germany on this day and put an end to the world war. -
This was created and is the predecessor to the United Nations. -
This started when the U.S. Secretary of the Interior started to lase the navy's oil reserves to private oil companies at lower rates than should have been. -
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Calvin Coolidge won against John W. Davis, and Robert M. La Follette. -
He was the first to have completed a non-stop flight across the Atlantic ocean. -
This was invented by Phili Taylor Farnsworth
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Sculptor Guzon Borglum was the sculptor that was tasked with making the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. -
Herbert Hoover wins election over Alfred E. Smith.
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The stock market crashes due to the market losing 50 billion dollars that resulted from the Great Depression.
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The was designed to address the poor depression economics and try to get our country out of the depression. -
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The government officials did this so that we did not get involved in a war.
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The Lend-Lease Act was designed to sell their weapons to other nations that needed weapons to fight off the Germans. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a tragic disaster for the American fleet due to the fact that 8 battleships were damaged or sunk 1,177 sailor and marines dying gin the attack.