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The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron.
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Green Russell and Sam Bates found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek that yielded about 622 grams of gold. The first significant gold discovery in the Rocky Mountain region.
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Daniel Freeman made the first claim under the Act, which gave citizens or future citizens up to 160 acres of public land to live on, improve it, and pay a small registration fee. This was to help develop the American West and spur economic growth.
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First proposed when Morrill was serving in the House of Representatives, the Morrill Land Grant College Act set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.” The president signed the bill into law.
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The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad is recognized as one of our country's biggest achievements. Just as it opened the markets of the west coast and Asia to the east, it brought products of eastern industry to the growing populace beyond the Mississippi.
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It proved to be the height of Native American power during the 19th century. It was also the worst U.S. Army defeat during the Plains Wars.
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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 received the historic patent embodying the principles of his incandescent lamp that paved the way for the universal domestic use of electric light.
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Carlisle was the first of many American Indian boarding schools. The United States founded the Carlisle school in 1879 at the site of an old military base, used during the colonial era and the Civil War.
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This act was the first significant restriction on free immigration in U.S. history, and it excluded Chinese laborers from the country under penalty of imprisonment and deportation.
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His company flipped the switch on his Pearl Street power station, providing hundreds of homes with electricity.
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On a rainy October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was officially unveiled in the United States.
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It was founded by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor.
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Both the Senate and House passed the Interstate Commerce Act.
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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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Scribner published Riis's work in book form - How the Other Half Lives, Studies Among the Tenements of New York.
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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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Frederick Jackson Turner's essay about the settling of the West was published.
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The Pullman Strike was two interrelated strikes that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression.
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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 Spanish–American War began in 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 this joint resolution.
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The United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago.
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Act that provided federal funds for the construction of dams, reservoirs, and canals in the West.
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The Panama Canal is 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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He wrote a novel based on the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
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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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Prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce.
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Upheld an Oregon law limiting the workday for female wage earners to ten hours.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States that was formed in 1909.
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This action of debt was brought by the United States to recover a penalty under the statute of Congress regulating the immigration of aliens into this country.
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Allows voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. Prior to its passage, senators were chosen by state legislatures.
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Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile.
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The Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System, known simply as "The Fed."
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A major global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918.
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Germany built new and larger U-boats to punch holes in the British blockade, which was threatening to starve Germany out of the war.
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The Clayton Act prohibits price discrimination.
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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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Congress thus voted to declare war on Germany, joining the bloody battle.
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Authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription.
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WWI ended.
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Prohibits 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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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.
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The first highly publicized trial concerning the teaching of evolution, the Scopes trial also represents a dramatic clash between traditional and modern values.