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The Alaska Purchase was the United States purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire on march 30 1867 by a treaty ratified by the United States Senate and signed by President Andrew Johnson.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester arthur on May 6 1882 prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers building on the 1875 Page Act which banned Chinese women from immigrating to the United States the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent all members of a specific ethnic or national group from immigrating.
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It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality
plessy is widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history the decision itself has never been explicitly overruled. a series of subsequent decisions beginning with the Board of education -
it began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. American acquisition of Spain's pacific possessions led to its involvement in the revolution and ultimately in the War.
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the Tenement House Act was one of the first laws to ban the construction of dark, poorly ventilated tenement buildings in the state of New York. the law required that new buildings must be built with outward facing windows in every room, an open courtyard, proper ventilation systems, indoor toilets, and fire safeguards.
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Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrial cities His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers 123 women and 23 men who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women
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Women's suffrage in the United States of America, the legal right of women to vote, was established over the course of more than half a century, first in various states and localities, sometimes on a limited basis, and then nationally in 1919.
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The Model T was an automobile built by the Ford Motor Company. Invented by Henry Ford as practical, "affordable transportation for the common man" it quickly became prized for its low cost durability, versatility, and ease of maintenance. Assembly-line production allowed the price of the touring car version to be lowered from $850 to less than $300.
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