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The first U boat 3 man submarine was created in Germany.
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It allowed for the mass production of steel.
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Gold was discovered in Pikes Peak which led to the Gold Rush.
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It gave present and future citizens public land to live and build on as long as they paid a small registration fee.
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It set aside federal land so that colleges could be built to "benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts".
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It was the completion of the transcontinental railroad, which spanned from one end of the country to the other, and was one of our biggest achievements.
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This battle took place between US troops and the Lakota and Plain Indians due to a broken land treaty.
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They sought to improve conditions for farmers through advocacy.
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Thomas Edison created the first light bulb.
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The Carlisle Boarding school was founded, which was an off the reservation boarding school for indigenous people.
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It restricted the amount of Chinese immigrants allowed in America.
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Edison and his company flipped the switch on his Pearl Street Power Station which provided hundreds of homes with electricity.
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The Statue of Liberty was built and was given to America as a gift from the French.
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It was made to unite workers from a variety of trades and allow the resources needed to support unions in the workplace.
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It granted Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign countries and between the states, along with regulating railroad rates.
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It restricted reservation land rights and separated reservations into small land parcels which were given out to the people.
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He wrote a published a novel stating the importance of sea power.
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An act was passed that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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Jacob Riis published a book of photos showing the differences in living situations between the middle and upper class, and the poor.
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US troops slaughtered nearly 300 Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee Creek.
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He wrote a thesis which proclaimed that the availability of unsettled land throughout America was an important factor in determining national development.
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There was a walkout at the Pullman Palace Car Company due to a failed negotiation over wages that happened during the Great Depression.
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It allowed for the "separate but equal" decision, and stated that segregation laws were not against the constitution.
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The Americans sided with Cuba and fought against the Spanish.
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The government decided a limitation on working times for minors and smelters was constitutional.
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The Hawaii islands were officially annexed by the US.
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The US paid Spain 20 million to annex the Philippians.
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It was an irrigation act that led to dams built on almost every western river and gave incentive for farmers to purchase more land to use.
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This allowed goods to be shipped quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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New York law states there was a maximum of hours bakers could work a week and the courts held it unconstitutional and said it violated the bakers rights to freedom.
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Upton Sinclair published his book The Jungle which became a best seller and shed light on the poor working conditions and corruption in the meat industry.
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It prohibited the sale of adulterated drug or food.
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It upheld an Oregon law that female workers had a 10 hour a day work limit. Muller was fined $10 and when he tried to apeal it the courts held the law as constitutional.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded as a civil rights organization to fight for justice for African American people.
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It modified article 1, section 3 of the constitution and allowed voters to cast direct votes for US senators.
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Henry Ford and his employees implemented the moving assembly line at their plant.
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It was created to establish economic stability by introducing a federal bank to oversee monetary policy.
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The US declared war on the Austria-Hungary empire who at the time were allied with Germany.
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It worked to get rid of monopolies within companies and banned certain discriminatory prices and services.
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The Lusitania was a British ship that was torpedoed by the German navy.
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The US officially declares war on Germany.
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It allowed the US government to temporarily expand the military using conscription.
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WW1 officially ends.
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It established the prohibition of alcohol in the US.
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It granted American women the right to vote.
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It limited the amount of immigrants allowed into the US.
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It gave a quota to the number of immigrants allowed in from Asia.
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I teachers was brought to trail because he went against his states Butler Act which didn't allow teachers to teach evolution.