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American settlers believed they were destined to expand westward.
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News of gold in California brought hundreds of thousands of people westward.
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Time of trying to rebuild the United States after the Civil War.
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Laws giving African Americans the bare minimum.
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Era of rapid economic growth.
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Granted citizenship to al people
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Black men can now vote
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7th Cavalry Regiment defeated by Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho.
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Spreading American economics, culture, and politics by taking over more land.
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Broke up tribal lands.
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Hundreds of Lakota Indians killed by United States Army troops.
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First electric light company to start. Started by Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan.
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Steel producing company started by Andrew Carnegie. Lots of his steel was used for upward growth.
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America got sugar from them and made Hawaii economy crash forcing Queen Liliuokalani to step down from thrown.
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Political movements trying to modernize American Society.
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Separate but Equal
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War between U.S. and Spain because U.S. declared Cuba a free country while under Spanish control.
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Spain ceded Philippines to the U.S. in the Treaty of Paris.
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Thousands of Italian immigrants came to America and turned to a life a crime.
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Book about how awful meat packing plants were and what was really in your food.
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Deadliest industrial disaster due to bad fire escapes and safety codes.
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President Teddy Roosevelt breaks up the Standard Oil company.
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Canal made to make trips form one side of the U.S. to the other much faster. Started by French and finished by U.S.
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Prohibited sale from factories using child labor.
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Nation wide constitutional ban on all alcoholic beverages in the U.S.
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Granted women the right to vote.
