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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" was passed.
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In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
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allowed steel to be produced without fuel.
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people came to pikes peak moving over cheyenne and arapaho lands, settlers pushed from gold fields, and relied on caravans coming from the east for survivial and trade.
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The Morrill Land Grant College Act, set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.”
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The Transcontinental Railroad became the first continuous railroad line across the United States, and was finished building in 1869.
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the ststue of liberty was bult between 1875 to 1884.
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought along the ridges, steep bluffs, and ravines of the Little Bighorn River, in south-central Montana
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Farmers set up cooperatively owned retail stores and marketing organizations.
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administrators forced students to speak English, wear Anglo-American clothing, and act according to U.S. values and culture.
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Edison decided to try a carbonized cotton thread filament. When voltage was applied to the completed bulb, it began to radiate a soft orange glow, this was a light bulb.
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the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10 year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
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His company flipped the switch on his Pearl Street power station on September 4, 1882, providing hundreds of homes with electricity.
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after the KOL rejected a proposal reaffirming the historic separation of trade-union and labour-reform functions, the craft unions revolted.
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he Interstate Commerce Act created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry.
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An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations was approved.
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices, approved july 2 1890
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Scribner's published Riis's work in book form.
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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 | Biography, Works, & Influence ...
Turner first detailed his own interpretation of American history in his justly famous paper in 1893 -
widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States.
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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 on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor
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the Hawaiian islands were officially annexed by the United States.
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the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago.
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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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Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry
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the Panama Canal was completed in 1914.
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The first German submarine, the U-1, was built.
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the Supreme Court issued a 5–4 decision in favor of Lochner that struck down the New York Bakeshop Act's limits on bakers' working hours as unconstitutional.
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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency.
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The Court found that the law was constitutional, stating that the Oregon legislature had a compelling interest in protecting women.
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This action of debt was brought by the United States to recover a penalty under the statute of Congress of March 3d, 1903, regulating the immigration of aliens into this country.
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The NAACP was created in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington.
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allowing 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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the Senate passed and President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act.
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the beginning of the first world war.
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the world war one ends.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton, and the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 are the foundation of antitrust laws in the United States and are codified in Title 15 of the United States Code.
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the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England.
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Germany's resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships in 1917
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Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription.
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prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.'
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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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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 trial lasted only eight days with the jury returning a verdict of guilty in less than nine minutes. John Scopes was fined $100.
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The ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races."