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The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel.
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The year gold was discovered in Pikes Peak.
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The United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states
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Congress provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land.
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The Transcontinental railroad from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California was completed.
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A pioneer in the use of photography as an agent of social reform.
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The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor and was a gift from France.
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The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne.
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The Farmers' Alliance was first organized in Texas and soon spread to other states and territories in the South and Midwest. The goal was to form cooperatives.
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Thomas Edison invents the first incandescent electric light.
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The first government-run boarding school for Native American children.
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The first government-run boarding school for Native American children.
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This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
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Edison's company flipped a switch in Pearl Street power station that sent electricity to hundreds of homes in Manhattan.
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A national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO.
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The Dawes Act regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.
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a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.
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The first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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A massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
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Perhaps the most influential essay by an American historian, Frederick Jackson Turner's address to the American Historical Association on “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”
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Widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States.
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A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality.
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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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The aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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The Hawaiian Islands were annexed by a joint resolution.
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The United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago.
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A United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.
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The Germans created their first models of the U-boat.
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An artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America.
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A New York State statute that prescribed maximum working hours for bakers violated the bakers' right to freedom of contract under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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The Jungle is a fictional novel written 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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Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men. The posed question was whether women's liberty to negotiate a contract with an employer should be equal to a man's.
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When it appears by undisputed testimony that a defendant has committed an offense against those sections, the trial judge may direct a verdict in favor of the government.
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An interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans
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Allows voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
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Created the Federal Reserve System, known simply as "The Fed."
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The Ford Motor Company team decided to try to implement the first full moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process.
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Prohibits price discrimination; the act of selling the same product to different buyers and charging different prices based on who is purchasing the goods.
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I.
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The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War.
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The U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany.
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Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription.
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After more than four years of horrific fighting WWI ended
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Prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors".
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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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A federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe.
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Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
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Prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had made illegal.