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French Trapper Eustace Carriere lost his party and ended up lost in the mountains for weeks. In the span of that time, he found pure gold.
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It was the first industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel.
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It provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. This was to help develop the American West and speed up economic growth.
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This act made it possible for U.S. States to create public colleges funded by the development or sale of federal land grants.
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An American agrarian movement during the 1870s and '80s that sought to improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy
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The purpose of this railroad was to join the eastern and western halves of the U.S. This is one of the most incredible American technological feats of the 19th century.
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The Stature of Liberty was built for the purpose of being a monument to honor the independence of the United States and as a token of friendship with the French.
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Also called Cluster's Last Stand, this was a battle in Montana Territory between the U.S. Federal Troops and the Northern Plain Indians.
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First government-run boarding school for Native American children. The goal is to accustom these children to a white American society.
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Thomas Edison, an inventor who after many attempts, created the light bulb.
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A great day for a great technological advancement, Thomas Edison flipped a switch and powered hundreds of homes with electricity.
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It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the U.S. To be Specific, Chinese Laborers could no longer migrate to the U.S. for 10 years.
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This act passed by President Grover Cleveland allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands.
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A.F. of L was a national federation of labor unions in the states that is still here today.
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This act addressed the issue of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how they could do business.
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Alfred Mahan, a lecturer in Naval History and President of U.S. Naval War College published this book to show a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval value as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.
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Jacob Riss, an American Newspaper reporter published a book titled, ¨How the Other Half Lives.¨ This was a book that exposed the slummy conditions of New York City.
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It was the First Federal Act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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This was the slaughter of 150-300 Lakota Indians by the U.S. Army troops at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.
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Known as the Frontier Thesis or ¨The Significance of the Frontier in American History,¨ is an essay that basically says that the availability of unsettled land was the most essential value of determining national development.
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Widespread railroad strikes and boycotts disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest as a result of not being heard by their boss for better wages, conditions, and lower rent.
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In the court case of Plessy V Ferguson, the court ruled that racial separation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution. This is known as ¨separate but equal."
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Labor law case that resulted in which the Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
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This was the day that the U.S. declared war on Spain. The war ended with the Treaty of Paris.
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In simple terms, Hawaii was taken over by the U.S. out of another country's territory.
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The U.S. paid Spain 20 million dollars to annex the entirety of the Philippine archipelago
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This is a pioneering environmental law that defined the federal role in western water distribution.
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The Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft dockyard in Kiel completed the first fully functional German-built submarine Forelle.
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Canal that is used to transport goods quickly and cheaply. It is incredibly efficient.
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Upton Sinclaire wrote The Jungle to expose the horrible working conditions in the meat-packing industry.
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The Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional.
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Bill that fortified the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission and strengthened federal regulations of railroads.
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The act prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce.
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Supreme Court Case in which the court considered whether a state could limit the number of hours a woman could work while also not limiting the hours of men.
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The Nation's largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization was born.
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The Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System known as "The Fed." It was created to maintain economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.
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The Ford Motor Company team decided to attempt to implement the moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process.
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Amendment 17 was added to the Constitution so that voter's votes will be directly cast for the U.S. Senators
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A piece of legislation passed by the U.S. that defines unethical business, such as price fixing and monopolies, and prohibits many of these unfair business practices.
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A German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a moving British cruise Liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England.
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The U.S. Senate voted in support to declare war on Germany.
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand set off a chain of events that led to the war.
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The Selective Service Act authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription.
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The eleventh hour of the eleventh month, the fighting stopped.
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The 18th Amendment was added to the Constitution for the purpose of prohibiting the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors..."
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The 19th Amendment preserves the right of any citizen to to vote.
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This act limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the U.S. through a national origins quota.(used visas)
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Also called the Immigration Act, was a discriminatory and ethnocentric policy that reduced overall immigration into the U.S.
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Known as the Monkey Trial, a high school teacher was charged with violating the Butler's Act law, which prohibited the teaching of evolution.