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The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron.
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Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak.
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Provided that 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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To grant each state 30,000 acres of public land issued in the form of "land scrip".
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Workers for the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads drove a golden spike into the rails at Promontory Summit, Utah.
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Battle of little bighorn
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The Farmers alliance was created.
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The Carlisle school was established
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Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
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This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
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Thomas Edison lights up NYC.
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The American federation of labor was founded.
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The Interstate commerce act was passed.
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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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Jacob Riis published his book of photos.
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Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power.
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The Sherman anti-trust act was passed.
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The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota.
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Frederick Jackson Turner writes an essay of settling the west.
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Widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest.
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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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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 begins.
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Hawaii is annexed.
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Phillipines islands are annexed.
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Irrigated the west through a series of dams on waterways
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Imposes the forfeiture and liability to pay double the value of the goods received, concealed, or purchased.
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The Panama Canal was built.
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Sinclair’s the Jungle was written.
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U-boats created.
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The Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional.
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The Pure Food and drug act was passed.
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A U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court considered whether a state could limit the amount of hours a woman could work while not also limiting the hours of men.
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Was the founding of the NAACP.
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The 17th adm was created.
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Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts.
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The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.
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Beginning of the first world war.
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Seeks to prevent anti-competitive practices in their incipiency.
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Lusitania Sunk.
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US enters WWI.
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All men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.
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WWI ends.
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The 18th adm was passed.
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The 19 adm was passed.
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The number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins.
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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 Statue of Liberty was built.
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Was the moniker journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.