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The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel.
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gold was found in Pikes Peak CA
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Any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
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States could establish public colleges funded by the development or sale of associated federal land grants
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The 1,912-mile continuous railroad constructed between 1863 and 1869 extending from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Francisco, California.
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General Custer and around 200 of his men were attacked by nearly 3000 native americans.
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Was an organized agrarian economic movement among american farmers
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Thomas Edison invented the first light bulb
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Boarding school made for Native Americans.
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The first significant law that restricted immigration into the United States
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Edison provided electricity for hundreds of homes in NYC
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It was built in France, then they took it apart and shipped it to the US as a gift.
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gaining the right to bargain collectively for wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions
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Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act, making the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation.
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Regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States
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The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed to address concerns by consumers who felt they were paying high prices on essential goods and by competing companies who believed they were being shut out of their industries by larger corporations.
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A book that analyzed of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.
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American troops slaughtered nearly 300 indians inhabiting the land near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota
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Essay of how the frontier had made the United States unique.
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Widespread railroad strike and boycott that severly affected rail traffic in the west.
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Upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races.
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It 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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Court ruling that said a limitation of working time for miners and smelters was constitutional.
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It marked the end of an internal struggle between native Hawaiians and non-native American businessmen for control of the Hawaiian government.
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the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago.
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The act set aside sales money from semi-arid land for the construction and maintenance of irrigation sites.
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A 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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An organization created to advance justice for black people in the United States.
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a decision by the Supreme Court that stated women were provided by state mandate fewer work hours than allotted to men.
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In an action of debt by the United States to recover a penalty imposed by the Alien Immigration Act of 1903, the court recognized the defendant had the constitutional right to have a jury pass on any tryable issues of fact.
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the act seeks to capture anti-competitive practices in their incipience by prohibiting particular types of conduct, not deemed in the best interest of a competitive market.
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Highland Park was the birthplace of Ford's moving assembly line, which led to mass production of the iconic Model T.
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The 17th Amendment modified Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
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WW1 was a major global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918. It was fought between two coalitions, the Allies and the Central Powers.
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Created the Federal Reserve System. It was implemented to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.
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The U-boat fleet made its first strike on September 5, 1914, with an attack on a British light cruiser off the coast of Scotland that killed more than 250 sailors.
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American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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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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The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
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the infusion of American troops and resources into the Western front finally tipped the scale in the Allies' favor. Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies.
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The 18th Amendment prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption.
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The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.
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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 federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe.
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The 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had made illegal.
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Scribner's published Riis's work in book form, How the Other Half Lives, Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890).