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On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. Critics of the deal to purchase Alaska called it Seward’s Folly or Seward’s Icebox. Opposition to the purchase of Alaska subsided with the Klondike Gold Strike in 1896. People thought the deal was not a good deal for the US.
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Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876. Also founded the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Bell also worked with Thomas Watson on the telephone.
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Thomas Alva Edison, born in Ohio on February 11, 1847. He may not have been the inventor of the light bulb. He was the inventor of the first viable one.
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Opened as an immigration station. Approximately 12 million immigrants came through Ellis island. Nowadays Ellis Island is the place of the Statue of Liberty.
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America's annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific. Also showed the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. In 1849, the United States and Hawaii concluded a treaty of friendship that served as the basis of official relations between the parties.
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The Spanish-American War was an 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas. Resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. Conflict originally started from Cubans struggle to gain independence from Spain.
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United States President William McKinley was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901. He was shaking hands with the public when anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt took over the office after McKinley's death.
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Model T was produced by ford company. Earliest affordable car for most Americans to buy. Growing number in sales of cars caused the growth of the highway system.
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In the summer of 1914, Franz Ferdinand and wife Sophie accepted an invitation to visit the capital of Bosnia, Sarajevo. On the morning of June 28, 1914, the royal couple arrived by train and a six-car motorcade drove them to city hall for an official reception. Princip approached and fired his gun, striking Sophie in the abdomen and the archduke in the neck. Both died before reaching the hospital.
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The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. Built by the United States. Originally first built by Great Britain but quit on it after the sickness spreading among the workers.
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