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adult citizen could claim 160 acres of land who had never borne arms against the us government
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Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876.
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he Reconstruction era was the period in American history that lasted from 1863 to 1877
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rapid economic growth
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Thomas edison invented the light bulb
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The third wave, between 1880 and 1914, brought over 20 million European immigrants to the United States, an average of 650,000 a year at a time when the United States had 75 million residents.
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he Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882
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The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law passed by the 47th United States Congress and signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur on January 16, 1883
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authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands
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The Gospel of Wealth, is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
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A migration by an estimated 100,000 prosectors to the klondike region
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The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a United States antitrust law that regulates competition among enterprises that was passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison.
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industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892
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The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States that lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894
