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It was the first method discovered in processing steel.
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Gold was discovered in Pikes Peak
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accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and five years of continuous residence on that land.
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committed the federal government to grant each state 30,000 acres of public land
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A railroad that went from coast to coast.
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The Statue of Liberty was built.
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The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne.
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Farmers set up cooperatively owned retail stores and marketing organizations.
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, opened in 1879 as the first government-run boarding school for Native American children.
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Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb.
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the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
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He provided dozens of homes in Manhatten with electricity.
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The American Federation of Labor was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO.
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Led by Samuel Gompers, an English immigrant who had organized cigar makers, the craft unions established the American Federation of Labor.
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granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”—to regulating railroad rates.
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An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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His celebrated work documenting the living conditions of the poor, which was published to widespread acclaim in 1890.
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Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783
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A gun was discharged and soldiers opened fire. When the shooting stopped, hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children were dead.
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This essay proclaimed that the once vast American frontier was closed.
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widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894.
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Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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Holden v. Hardy, 169 U.S. 366, is 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 in 1898
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Hawaiian Islands were annexed by this joint resolution.
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the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago. The outraged Filipinos, led by Aguinaldo, prepared for war.
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The Reclamation Act of 1902 is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West
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A suit brought by the United States to recover the penalty prescribed by §§ 4 and 5 of the Alien Immigration Act
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Panama Canal was built
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was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court holding that 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 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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Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States
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allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
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The Ford Motor Company team decided to try to implement the moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process. After much trial and error, in 1913 Henry Ford and his employees successfully began using this innovation at our Highland Park assembly plant.
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Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System,
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Early U-boats (1850–1914)
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World War I, often abbreviated as WWI or WW1, was a major global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918.
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The Clayton Act prohibits price discrimination.
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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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On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The House concurred two days later. The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917.
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authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
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On Nov. 11, 1918, after more than four years of horrific fighting WWII ends.
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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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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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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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John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925