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The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.
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Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak
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Provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
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Set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.”
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Transcontinental Railroad completed
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The most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War.
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he Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers
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Carlisle School Established
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Thomas Edison Invents Lightbulb
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Provided a 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the U.S.
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With a flip of the switch, he lit up New York providing hundreds of homes with electricity
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Statue of Liberty Built
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American Federation of Labor Founded
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Interstate Commerce Act Passed
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Authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals.
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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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Sherman Ant-Trust Act Passed
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Massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
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Frederick Jackson Turner Writes Essay of Settling the West
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The Pullman Strike was two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression.
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Upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
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A US labor law case in which the US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
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Spanish American War Begins
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Hawaii is Annexed
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Philippines Islands are Annexed
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Authorized the Secretary of the Interior to designate irrigation sites and to establish a reclamation fund from the sale of public lands to finance the projects.
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U-Boats Created
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Panama Canal is Built
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The Court decided that New York did not have the right to make a law interfering with the right of an employer to make a contract with workers.
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The Jungle is a fictional novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century.
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Prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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The court considered whether a state could limit the amount of hours a woman could work while not also limiting the hours of men.
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Founding of the NAACP
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Allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators
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Ford Motor Company's First Full Assembly Line Starts
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Created the Federal Reserve System, known simply as "The Fed."
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Beginning of the First World War
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Defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor.
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Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
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US Enters WWI
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authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. The act eventually required all men between the ages of 21 to 45 to register for military service.
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WWI Ends
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prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
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A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.
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prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.
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18th Amendment is repealed