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The first submarine built in Germany, the three-man Brandtaucher, sank to the bottom of Kiel Harbor on 1 February 1851 during a test dive.
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It made it possible to produce steel as ingots.
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Green Russell and Sam Bates found gold in Little Dry Creek which led to much more after this discovery of gold.
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Any adult citizen, or intended citizen, could be provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land
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This made it possible for states to establish public colleges funded by the development or sale of associated federal land grants
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The first continuous railroad line across the United States.
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Marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War.
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Improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy.
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Thomas Edison invented the very first light blub.
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The site of an old military base, used during the colonial era and the Civil War. Soldiers also used it as an army training school from 1838 to 1871.
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Excluded Chinese laborers from the country under penalty of imprisonment and deportation.
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The year when he lit up Manhattan.
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An alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor.
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Addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business.
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The law 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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Featuring never-before-seen photos supplemented by blunt and unsettling descriptions, the treatise opened New Yorkers' eyes to the harsh realities of their city's slums.
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Argued that sea power was the key to military and economic expansion.
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Authorized the federal government to institute proceedings against trusts in order to dissolve them.
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The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota.
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The frontier had been the most important factor in shaping a distinctly American character and in differentiating America from Europe.
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A widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States
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Upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
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The US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional.
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Extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power.
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The Philippines, the country became an American colony.
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Ended Spain's colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power.
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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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Helps maintain the law and order situation in the country.
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The novel shows that poverty is in control over the working class, but the working class still has a desperation for money.
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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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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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It must be taken as settled law that a certain sum, or a sum which can readily be reduced to a certainty.
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The nation's oldest civil rights organization it was needed because of the time back then and how African Americans were being treated.
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Allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
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Allowed for the work to be taken to workers rather than the worker moving to and around the vehicle.
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Legislation in the United States that created the Federal Reserve
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A waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade.
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a young Serbian patriot shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Austria), in the city of Sarajevo.
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Unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor.
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The German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania.
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The US entered World War I because Germany embarked on a deadly gamble
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Authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription
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A global conflict that took place between 1914 and 1918 was over.
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The manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours”
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An Act to limit the immigration of migrants into the United States.
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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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Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi used his sculpting skills to hammer and mold copper into the shape of Lady Liberty.
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The trial publicized the fundamentalist–modernist controversy, which set Modernists, who said evolution could be consistent with religion, against fundamentalists, who said the word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all human knowledge.