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The first submarine built in Germany sank to the bottom of Kiel Harbor.
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The first inexpensive industrial process for mass producing steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.
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Known as the Pikes Peak Gold Rush, it was a time when gold was very profitable and miners rushed to get a share of gold found in Pike Peaks Country.
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Anyone who had never borne arms against the U.S. could claim 160 acres of surveyed land.
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Made it possible for states to establish public colleges funded by associated federal land grants.
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The transcontinental railroad connected the eastern railworks to the west coast of the United States.
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General Custer and around 200 of his men were attacked by nearly 3000 indians. They were all dead within in hour.
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Was an organized agrarian econmic movement among american farmers
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Edison invented the first electric power light source. A revolutionary breakthrough.
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Boarding school made for Indians
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Prohibited the immigration of all Chinese laborers for 10 years with some exceptions.
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Manhattan was the first city to be illuminated by the newfound lightbulb, bringing a new era of urban illumnation.
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An organizations that focused on obtaining the right to collectively bargain for wages, hours, etc.
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Authorized the President to break up of reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, to be parceled out as small allotments.
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Designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly their monopolistic practices. Required that railroad rates be reasonable and just.
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Jacob Riis book "How The Other Half Lives" was published, detailing the lives of the people who lived in poverty.
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Mahan wrote a book on how sea power led to the rise of the British Empire from 1660-1783
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This act was passed in order to stop the many growing monopoly businesses using free competition.
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American troops slaughtered nearly 300 indians inhabiting the land near Wounrd Knee Creek, South Dakota
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Jackson wrote about how the western frontier of the United States should be settled because of the hardships the people currently faced.
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Widespread railroad strike and boycott that severly affected rail traffic in the west.
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A Supreme Court ruling that segregation violated no laws in the constitution as long as the separate facilities were equal.
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Ruling that said a limitation of working time for miners and smelters was constitutional.
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Caused by the attack on the USS Maine, the U.S. declared war Spain.
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Marked the end of a government power struggle between native Hawaiians and the U.S.
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The United States pain 20 million to annex the phillippines
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The act set aside sales money from semi-arid land for the construction and maintainance of irrigation sites.
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Ruled that setting a maximum working hours limit for bakers was unconstitutional.
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This book was written in order to expose corruption in businesses and governments.
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Set in place laws that prevented any poisonous, unreliable, or unsafe drugs or ingredients in marketed foods. This led to the creation of FDA.
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An organization created to advance justice for african americans in the United States.
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This ruling prohibited females from working more than 10 hours a day
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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 defendent had the constitutional right to have a jury pass on any triable issues of fact
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Prohibited price discrimination between buyers and consumers
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Revolutionary way of manufacturing goods
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Implemented to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank.
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The canal was made to quickly transport goods between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
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Allowed voters to cast direct votes to senators
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After the asassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the first world war would soon be underway. Beginning with the Austro-Hangarian governemtn declaring war on Serbia.
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A British supply carrying boat that Germany sank during world war one.
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April 6, 1917 the U.S. declared war on Germany
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Authorized the U.S. to raise a national army through conscription for WWI.
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Germany and the Axis Powers surrendered
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Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of intoxicating liquors.
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Any citizen of age, no matter what, can vote.
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Limited the amount immigrants allowed into the states .
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Limited number of immigrants, also included the asian exclusion act
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A gift of peace from the people of France, the copper stature was built on Liberty Island, New York Harbor, New York City
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John T. Scopes was accused of violating the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in state funded schools.