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In the American West, the search for gold represents possibilities to success. The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, set a pattern for such strikes that was repeated and again for the next decade, which was known as the California Gold Rush.
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The Homestead Act passed during the Civil War in 1862 provided adult citizens who had never borne arms against the U.S. government to claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation “declared that all persons held slaves are henceforward shall be free.”
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In many places it was illegal even to teach a Black person to read and write, although such laws often were not enforced, and many Black people became literate.
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This iconic photograph records the celebration marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad lines at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869 when the eastern and western rails were connected by a golden spike.
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The discovery of large quantities of crude oil in northwest Pennsylvania soon changed the lives of millions of Americans.
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Joseph Glidden’s invention of barbed wire changed the face of the American West forever. Joseph began searching for a better fencing method after his wife complained about livestock getting into the yard
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The great strike began on the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) and spread west along the railroads through West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and eventually touching Omaha, St. Louis, and the west.
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Sitting Bull, the iconic figure who led the battle at Little Bighorn River, was responsible for the largest victory Indians against the American settlers.
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The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. A rally that began peacefully in support of workers striking for an eight-hour work day.
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Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in steel at such factories as the Carnegie Steel. He may have been known as a successful businessman, but he was also an innovator.
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During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Americans witnessed many strikes. Their causes varied. Sometimes economic complaints such as ow pay, and, especially, long hours, led to strikes.
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The "Red Summer" riot claimed over 250 lives when a white mob stoned a young black boy to death for swimming "too close to the white beach" on Lake Michigan.
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The worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped-out millions of investors.
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In March 1931, a fight erupted in a train consisting of mainly homeless and jobless hoboes. The train stopped at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and before you know it, two white women accused nine black teenagers of rape. So began the most legal fight in the 20th century that divided the American people into race and politics.
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Brain Trust in U.S. history are group of advisers to Franklin D. Roosevelt during his first campaign for the presidency. These group were responsible for coming up with ideas to support the American people during the Great Depression.
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The Arctic convoys of World War II were oceangoing convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union. In this particular convoys, one of the troops, Robert Carse, described the events of the attack on sea.
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Bill of Rights was established to provide services and benefits to the veterans of World War II. It is also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. The act put higher education, job training, and home ownership within the reach of millions of World War II veterans.
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The violation and violence asserted on black women's bodies at this time were outrageous. McGuire detailed an event in 1959 when Betty Jeans Owens was raped seven times by four white males. With her testimony and the help of her local black community, Owen's rappers were trailed and convicted by an all-white jury.
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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner first published in 1873. It portrayed greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America.
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