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Thomas Newcomen builds first commercially successful steam engine. Able to keep deep coal mines clear of water. First significant power source other than wind and water.
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Industrialisation (or industrialization) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial oneIndustrialization, 5 Year Plans, 1928-1941
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adopted bessemer process;homestead strike ;vertical intergration;gospel of wealth
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This is important because the British Raj was a very significant ruling system of India. LKDJLKGJ Also, the East India Company, a major company at the time, collapsed because of the Enfield rifles that they produced
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The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election
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The Battle of Antietam also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil
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The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
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Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee concentrated his army around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, upon the approach of Union Gen.
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Rev. William Lee, born at Woodborough near Nottingham, invents the Stocking Frame, a mechanical device for knitting stockings
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limited the right of movement of the freedmen
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United States President Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play ..... Lincoln died at 7:22:10 a.m. on April 15, 1865
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Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour and is elected president of the United States
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John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is incorporated in Ohio
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President Ulysses S. Grant names George William Curtis to head the Civil Service Commission
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hoover become president
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were Italian-born anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
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The Boer War is significant because it was one of the first "total war" battles fought by the British against the Dutch farmers in South Africa. The Boers used guerilla tactics to hide amongst the people, and the British would kill everybody, reguardless of gender, age, or race. They believed that if they could kill everybody, they would kill every boer that had resisted them.
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Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain, essentially effecting a submarine blockade where even neutral merchant vessels were to be potential targets.
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Germany sends the secret Zimmerman Telegram to Mexico in an effort to entice Mexico to join the war. The British intercept and decipher the coded message
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The United States declares war on Germany.
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The states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment that forbade the manufacture, disrtibution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States.
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the 18th amendment introduced prohibited but many african american failed to obey it
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gave women right to vote while the flappers wore looser clothing and went out chaperones
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children that work hard and it keeps them from attending school
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congress tariff passes the smoot hawley tariff act
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fascist italy invades conquers and annexes ethiopia
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germany and japan sign the anti cominter pact directed against the soviet union and international communist mover
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japan invedes china causes wolrld war 2 in the pacific
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Viet Minh announced the establishment of an independent Vietnam with a new government called the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
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president truman announce it to prevent them from fallin into soviet spere
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process a resolution calling the withdrawn of foreign soldiers from korea
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supreme court rule ont he landmark case brown v.board of education
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rosa refuse to give up her sit at the front of the colored section
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students volunteer to take bus and travel to the south to test out new laws that prohibited the segregation
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the fighting between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese continued, the U.S. continued to send additional advisers to South Vietnamnorth vietnamesse fired on two U.S ships in international water
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The U.S. congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Johnson the power to take whatever actions he sees necessary to defend southeast Asia.
