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Henry Bessemer and WIlliam Kelly used this process to make steel. The steel was used on railroad tracks
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Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the sixteenth President of the United States.He warns the south he will not tolerate the secession.
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At 4:30 a.m. Confederates open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter.After this attack the civil war beings
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This Second Emancipation Proclamation frees all slaves that were still in rebellion towards the US.Which President Lincoln issued
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The Union Army vs the Confederate Army,one of the bloodiest battles of the war only lasting four days.Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army was defeated by the Union Army.
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Riots and a race massacre break out a white mob attacks blacks attending a black suffrage convention.Killing over 40 americans
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Congress passes the Ku Klux Klan Act impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations,
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.While trying to improve the telegraph bell found that you can transport sound from a wire.
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Brakemen and firemen walked off the job initiating a wildcat strike.This strike shut down thousand of miles of the track.
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Homestead Strike was a labor lockout and strike which resulted in a long day battle.The strike ended on November 20, 1892.
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When the steel plant owner shuts down the factory and locks out its employees.Iron workers break down
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Workers of the Pullman company went on strike,All because of the company owner refusing to match wage cuts
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Cuba won its independence from Spain.The US would leave the government and control of the Island to its people.
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A Conflict between US and Spain that ended the Spanish colonial rule.The war started inCuban struggle for independence for Spain
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Boer war was Candana's first dispatch of troops to overseas war.The Boer war was the first total war battles fought by British againist The Dutch farmers in South Africa.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. This assassination leaded to the World War 1
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A German submarine sinks the lusitania.Over 1300 passengers and more than 128 Americans.
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Arthur Zimmermann wants Mexico to side which Germany during the war and in return they will give back part of texas that was lost.Mexico declined their offer
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Germany and it's allies signs an armistice.This armistice ends the WW1
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A general strike that lasted 5 days and stopped economic activity.
The strike fails when workers are threathenby the state.This strike also terrfies many Amercians -
Immigrant Italian radicals Sacco-Vanzetti was convicted of a robbery and murder.Sacco-Vanzetti was then executed due to the match of the gun.
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The American stock market collapses.This signaled and onset of The Great Depression
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Congress passes the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, raising import duties.This attempt was to protect American manufactures from foreign competition.It has a little impact on American economy,Europe went deep in crisis
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Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act.This act bans travel on ships and forbibs Amercian merchant ships trading.Also issues arms embargo with warring nations.
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Due to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the United States was then drawn into the war.Mobilization for the war took Amercican Economy out of the war.
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Yalta Conference was a conference to decided what would happen at the end of the war.Those who attended the confrence was Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin they spoke upon Partitioning of Germany , Fate of Poland, The United Nations, German reparations.
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The United states drops an atmoic bomb on Hiroshima their very first bomb to be used in a war.This atmoic bomb " Little boy " killed 75,000 people instantly, and injuring more than 100,000.
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The United States dropped the second atomic bomb " Fat Boy " on Nagasaki.TThis bombing left 35,000 dead days later Japan surrenders
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The Viet Minh attacks French forces in northern Vietnam. This is the beginning of the Vietnamese War.
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Truman Doctrine a speech given by President Truman.Truman pledges to give Amercian assistance to any nation threatened by communism.
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France and Ho Chi Minh sign the Geneva Accords ,Vietnam is to be divided at the seventeenth parallel.South Vietnamese government and the United States refuse to sign but promise to abide by the agreement.
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Rosa Parks was convicted for violating bus segregation laws by sitting in the front of the bus and refusing to move to the back.The leaders of the boycott formed Montgomery Improvement Association.
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A Soviet nuclear missile base was sighted by US spy plane.JFK set up a naval blockade to remove the missiles.Russia agreed to remove the missiles and the war was averted.
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Civil Rights Act bans segregation in all public places, requires employers to provide equal opportunity for those of all races.Any federal funding that discriminate aganist anybody will be pulled.This act was signed by President Johnson.
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Due to police brutality spark race riots in Philadelphia taking place in a black neighborhood. More than 340 people are injured, 774 are arrested.
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Over 3 million Americans have served in the war, nearly 60,000 are dead, some 150,000 are wounded, and at least 1,000 are missing in action. Vietnam War is officially over.
