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George pullmen is an american engineer and industrialist.He designed and manufacttured pullmen sleeping car and made a town for the workers that build them.
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Andrew carnegie was an american industrialist that owned Americas steel industry.He belived in using his money to help out society.
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Thomas edison was and american inventor and buisnessman.He developed the phonograph,motion picture camara and the light bulb.
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Abraham lincoln did not win on popularity votes.He earned enough electoral votes to beat all other opponents.
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Lincoln issues the second emancipation proclamation.Emphasized as a war measure frees all slaves in states or parts that were still in rebellion.
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one of the bloodiest battles of the war ,that war was also a turning point.This war marks the farthest advance of the confederate army into northern territory led by Robert E.Lee.
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Bureau of refugees,freedmen,and abanded lands.Established within the war department
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General robert E.lee surrenders to general ulysses S.grant.Happened in the town of appomattox court house,virginia,the war ended.
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organization composed of confedarate army vets founded the kkk.They intimidated blacks and other ethnic groups and religious minorities.
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John D. rockefeller standard oil company is incorparated in ohio.Standard oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868.
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Alexander graham bell transmits a human voice over a wire.Telephone revolutionize personal and business comminication.
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Conference is significant because it marks king leopold II decided to carve up africa so that belgium expanded and other european nations.Did not consider cultural or linguistic boundaries when they choose which land to conquer.
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Rally in chicago's haymarket square in support of striking workers.A bomb was thrown killing 6 police men and wounding more then 60 people.
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Declared april 25th 1898 after sinking of the main battleship in havana of febuary earlier that year.War ended august 13,1898,peace treaty signed december 10th,1898.
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THE U.S ANNEXED HAWAII on july 7,1898.HAWAIIANS were given full u.s citizenship due to buisness interest.
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Austria-hungary declares war on serbia.This effectively of archduke franze-furdinand and his wife by a serbian nationalist.
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President woodrow wilson announces the u.s wil remain neutral.On april 4 house reprasentatives declared car and america formally entered WWI.
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Germany sends a secrete telegram to mexico so mexico can join the war and germany tells them that if they do they will get their used to own land back like arizona.the britich intercept and decipher the coded message.
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Pgohibition banned the consumption and selling of alcahol.Al capone made tons of money selling illegal alcahol.
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A high school teacher goes on trial for teaching theory of evolution in school.He lost the trail and paid charges of 100 dollars.
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At the end of the 1920'sthe stock marcket crashed.Caused the start of the great depression.
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Raised import duties in attempt to protect american manufactures from foreign competition.Had little impact on the american economy, but but but european economy in crisis.
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT defeats HERBERT HOOVER by landside.He was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of economic depression and war.
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ROOSEVELT is re-elected as second term president, wonin landslide against ALF LANDON.He also won every state but MAIN and VERMONT.
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT signs the 1937 neutrality act.Bans travel on hostile ships,forbids the arming of american marchent ships tradng with countries at war .
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JAPANESE war planes attack an american boat in accident.Nevertheless the attack caused u.s opinions to turn against the japanese.
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Government capitulated on 25th june just seven days after the start of the invasion.HITLERS brilliant BLITZKRIEG plan got the allies by surpries.
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This decided the post war statues of GERMANY.Also the decision to divide GERMANY in to four occupation zone.
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The united states droped an ATOMIC BOMB in HIROSHIMA,JAPAN first atomic bomb to be used in war.The bomb killed 75,000 instantly,and injured more then 100,000.
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The red scare reached its peak in 1949.The government started to think that celebrities where members of the communist party.
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President RICHARD NIXON and soviet leader NIKITA KHRUCHEV get into a heated debate.The so called "kitchen debate" became one of the most famouse episodes in the COLD WAR.
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The KKK bombs the 16th street BAPTIST CHURCH,killed four young girls attending sunday school.Only one suspect went on trial and was convicted in 2001,38 years after the murder.
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President LYNDON JOHNSON signs the civil right act which outlaws segragation in all public places.He threaten to pull federal funding from places that discriminate based on COLOR,RACE,ETHNICITY,and GENDER .
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Over 600 people leave SELMA,ALABAMA and go to montgemery in a march for voting rights.They reached EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE and state troopers used violence and gases to drive them back to SELMA.
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U.S soilders mad about not capturing vietnamese guerillas killed 30 civilians in MY LAI village. Commander WILLIAM CALLEY was sentenced to life in prison but was realesed in 1974.
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VIETNAM tanks enter SAIGON and the last U.S marines flee in helicopters.LOOTERS take over the embassy building as the vietnam war comes to an end,.
