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U-boats created
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A steel-making process.
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The discovery of gold in Pikes Peak.
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Homeowners in Arkansas may receive a homestead property tax credit of up to $375 per year.
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Committed the federal government to grant each state 30,000 acres of public land issued in the form of "land scrip" certificates.
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The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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The Statue of Liberty was built.
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A battle fought along the ravines and ridges of the Little Bighorn River.
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The Farmers alliance was created.
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The Carlisle school was established.
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Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
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The first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
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The first electrical lighting in New York City.
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The American Federation of Labor was founded.
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The Interstate Commerce Act was passed.
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An act to provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations.
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Jacob Riis published his book of photos.
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Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power
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The Sherman Ant-Trust Act was passed.
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The massacre, during which soldiers of the US Army 7th Calvary Regiment indiscriminately slaughtered hundreds of Sioux people.
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Widespread railroad strike and boycott.
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The court case that upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the while and colored races."
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The Supreme Court held a limitations on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
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Spanish American War begins
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The Hawaiian Islands were annexed by this joint resolution.
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Phillipines islands are annexed
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The act set aside money from sales of semi-arid public lands for the construction and maintenance of irrigation projects.
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Panama Canal was built.
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A case in which the Court held the New York statue forbidding bakers from working more than 60 hours a week or 10 hours a day violated the 14 Amendment.
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Sinclair’s the Jungle written
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The pure Food and Drug Act passed
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A case in which the Court found that limiting the number of work hours for women did not violate the right to contract in the 14th Amendment.
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Fixes the amount of the liability at double the value of the goods received, concealed, or purchased.
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Founding of the NAACP.
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Allows voters to cast direct votes for the U.S. senators
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Created the Federal Reserve System, known simply as "The Fed"
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Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
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Beginning of the first world war
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Prohibited price discrimination
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Lusitania Sunk
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US enters WWI
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The Selective Service Act authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription.
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WWI ends
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Prohibits the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquor.."
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Fredrick Jackson Turner wrote an essay on settling the west.
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The right of citizens of the United State to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on account of sex.
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Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the US through a national origins quota.
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Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the US through a national origins quota.
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The prosecution of a science teacher for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school.