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Germany built U-boats to punch holes in the British blockade, which was threatening to starve Germany out of the war
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A process of making steel from pig iron by burning out carbon and other impurities by means of a blast of air forced through the molten metal.
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Green Russell and Sam Bates found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek that yielded about 20 troy ounces of gold
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Act that 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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Act that stimulated the creation or development of the 68 colleges and universities in the United States now referred to as “Land Grant Colleges.”
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This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history.
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A French politician named Edouard de Laboulaye proposed that a monument that would honor the United States' centennial of independence and the friendship with France be built.
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War
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The Farmers' Alliance was first organized in Texas with the goal to form cooperatives
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Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light.
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It was one of the first and most well-known boarding schools for Native children
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This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
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Edison provided hundreds of homes with electricity.
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The American Federation of Labor was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO.
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Act that is granting Congress the power to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States.
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It 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's published Riis's work in book form, How the Other Half Lives, Studies Among the Tenements of New York
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Alfred Mahan published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire
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This act was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.
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The Wounded Knee Massacre was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army
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Frederick Jackson Turner wrote "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" after the Superintendent of the Census of 1890 declared that the American frontier had been settled and additional land was no longer available.
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It was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the U.S. Midwest
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It was a Supreme Court decision ruling 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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It is 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 United States declared war against Spain
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America's annexation of Hawaii extended U.S. territory into the Pacific
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In Paris, the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago
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The legislation authorized the Secretary of the Interior to designate irrigation sites and to establish a reclamation fund from the sale of public lands to finance the projects
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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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The Court decided that New York did not have the right to make a law interfering with the right of an employer to make a contract with workers
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The Jungle is a novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair
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It prohibits interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks and drugs
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He enacted a law that limited women to ten hours of work in factories and laundries
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Act which involves the right of a trial judge to direct a verdict in favor of the government in an action for penalty
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States
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It allows voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators
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Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile
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It was implemented to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy
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A young Serbian patriot shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the first world war began
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This act prohibits price discrimination which means selling the same product to different buyers and charging different prices based on who is purchasing the goods
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The German submarine sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England
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The U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany
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An act to provide for the common defense by increasing the strength of the Armed Forces of the United States, including the reserve components thereof, and for other purposes
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Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies
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It prohibited 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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The Immigration Act limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
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It reduced overall immigration to the United States and established quotas on immigration from Western and Southern European countries
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John Thomas Scopes was an American legal case from which a high school teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school