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Alexander was interested in sound because both his parents were deaf. He formed his own telephone company called Bell Telephone Company. Things in the company have changed, even then name, today it is known as AT&T.
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Edison made over 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. It changed the way most people lived their lives, they could do things when it got dark. The lamp would only burn for a couple of hours though. The light bulb worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum wire.
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It was a place where immigrants came to escape poverty and religious intolerance. It served the purpose of doing that for over 60 years. Over the 60 years, 120,000 immigrants were went sent back and about 3,000 died there.
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Spain forced Cubans into slavery and thousands of them died from starvation and disease. The U.S. was along the side with the Cubans for economic and trade reasons, so they wanted to help. The first battle between the U.S. and Spain happened at Manila Bay in the Philippines.
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A secret society in China known as the Boxers went on a violent campaign to get all foreigners away from China. Several countries sent troops to stop the attacks. There was an effect on this and it actually made China have a weak dynasty.
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It is required that all food and drugs are meant for human consumption, strict testing to make sure of cleanliness and safeness. They were needed for preventing poisonous, misbranded, and manufactured. They were both passes by Theodore Roosevelt.
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The model T had a 22-horsepower, four-cylinder engine and was made of heat-treated steel, which made it lighter. It could only go up to 40 mph, and could run on gasoline or hemp-based fuel. Henry reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two and a half.
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It is one of the largest construction projects ever to become, engineers, moved nearly 240 million cubic yards, spent close to $400 million in constructing the 40-mile long canal.
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It started when Germany sank many American merchant ships around the British Isles. The U.S. also joined with its allies- Britain, France, and Russia to go into the War. More than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on the battlefields in France.
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In the early years of the movement, there was more than just the right to vote. Their goals were equal access to education and employment, custody over her children, and equality within marriage. After the Civil War, many rights activists came to part ways with the women's suffrage act.
