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the first U-boats were created
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process of making steel from pig iron
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Gold was discovered in pikes peak
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allows a maximum exemption amount of $2,500 of one's equity, with a maximum of one acre (1/4 acre minimum) for urban properties and 160 acres if rural.
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United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales of federally-owned land, often obtained from indigenous tribes through treaty, cession, or seizure.
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By connecting the existing eastern U.S. rail networks to the West Coast, the Transcontinental Railroad became the first continuous railroad line across the United States
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The Statue that France sent us was finally built.
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an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
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One of the group's main goals was to form cooperatives. Farmers set up cooperatively owned retail stores and marketing organizations.
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Thomas Edison invents the light bulb
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The Carlisle school was established
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the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
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Thomas Edisons creation of controlled electricity lit up hundreds of homes on this day
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a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor.
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regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.
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applied the Constitution's “Commerce Clause”—granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”—to regulating railroad rates.
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A book of photos on the poverty in New York
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In 1890, 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, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.
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first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
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In 1893, a historian from Wisconsin, named Frederick Douglass Turner read his essay entitled, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” at the world Columbian exposition in Chicago. This essay redefined history not just as a political narrative, but as the growth of the Western frontier.
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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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the 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, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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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 Spanish American War began.
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On July 7, 1898, the 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.
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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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The Panama Canal is built
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The book, The Jungle, was written
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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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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate fewer 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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A suit brought by the United States to recover the penalty prescribed by §§ 4 and 5 of the Alien Immigration Act of March 3, 1903, c. 1012, 32 Stat. 1213, is a civil suit and not a criminal prosecution, and 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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The NAACP was founded
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allowing 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 moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process
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The Clayton Act prohibits price discrimination
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WW1 first began
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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. It sunk on this day
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The US entered WWl
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AN ACT to provide for the common defense by increasing the strength of the Armed Forces of the United States, including the reserve components thereof, and for other purposes.
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The amendment to end alcohol sales in America
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WWl ended
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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. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s.
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a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school