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a process of producing steel, in which impurities are removed by forcing a blast of air through molten iron.
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was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on.
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To help develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862
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set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.
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The completion of the first transcontinental railroad revolutionized travel, connecting areas of the Western United States with the East.
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn happened because the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie, in which the U.S. government guaranteed to the Lakota and Dakota as well as the Arapaho exclusive possession of the Dakota Territory west of the Missouri River, had been broken.
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Farmers' Alliance, an American agrarian movement during the 1870s and '80s that sought to improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy.
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Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light. It worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb
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The Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened in 1879 and operated for nearly 30 years with a mission to “kill the Indian” to “save the Man.”
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It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A.
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company flipped the switch on his Pearl Street power station on September 4, 1882, providing hundreds of homes with electricity.
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an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor.
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making the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation. Congress passed the law largely in response to decades of public demand that railroad operations be regulated.
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the law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals.
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his celebrated work documenting the living conditions of the poor, which was published to widespread acclaim in 1890.
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his celebrated work documenting the living conditions of the poor, which was published to widespread acclaim in 1890.
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a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act authorized the federal government to institute proceedings against trusts in order to dissolve them.
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the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota.
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Turner's work came to be known as simply the Turner Thesis or American Frontierism.
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widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in
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Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races.
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a US labor law case in which the US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
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America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor.
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the Hawaiian Islands were annexed by this joint resolution. When the Hawaiian islands were formally annexed by the United States in 1898
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the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago.
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authorized the Secretary of the Interior to designate irrigation sites and to establish a reclamation fund from the sale of public lands to finance the projects
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Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry.
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ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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to starve Britain before the British blockade defeated Germany.
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the Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional.
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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court considered whether a state could limit the amount of hours a woman could work while not also limiting the hours of men.
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to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color."
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allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
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workers put V-shaped magnets on Model T flywheels to make one-half of the flywheel magneto.
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The 1913 Federal Reserve Act is legislation in the United States that created the Federal Reserve System.
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World War I was a global conflict that took place between 1914 and 1918. Also known as the Great War or First World War, it was fought mainly in Europe, but it also spread to the Middle East, Africa, and Asia
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This is the act of selling the same product to different buyers and charging different prices based on who is purchasing the goods.
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the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England.
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a war to end all wars” that would “make the world safe for democracy.
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authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription.
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the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I.
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prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” in the United States.
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granted women the right to vote.
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prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” in the United States.
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This monument would honor the United States' centennial of independence and the friendship with France.
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limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
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reduced overall immigration to the United States and established quotas on immigration from Western and Southern European countries, as well as Asian countries and Russia.
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prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.
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rewrote banking laws to allow Heppner's company, Beneficient, to open shop in his hometown of Hesston.