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Germany's only weapon of advantage as Britain effectively blocked German ports to supplies
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the first inexpensive industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel. the process used a molten pig iron to melt iron
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the first significant gold discovery in the Rocky Mountain region. they found 20 troy ounces or 662 grams of gold
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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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law in which the federal government distributed millions of acres of western lands to the state governments in order to fund state agricultural colleges
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one of our country's biggest achievements and one of mankind's biggest accomplishments
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a universal symbol of freedom
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marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War
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first organized in Texas in the mid-1870s and soon spread to other states and territories in the South and Midwest
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The light bulb creates light when electrical current passes through the metal filament wire, heating it to a high temperature until it glows
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one of the first and most well-known boarding schools for Native children, and its operational model set the standard for most boarding schools across the country
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This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States
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the year when he lit up Manhattan. 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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it concentrated on gaining the right to bargain collectively for wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions
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making the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation
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The desired effect of the Dawes Act was to get Native Americans to farm and ranch like white homesteaders
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"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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a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire
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his celebrated work documenting the living conditions of the poor
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The Sherman Antitrust Act is a law passed by Congress to promote competition within the economy by prohibiting companies from colluding or merging to form a monopoly
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U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children in an attempt to suppress a religious movement
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he US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional
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widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States
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upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine
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America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor
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The United States wanted to use Hawaii as a platform from which they could have a dominant Military presence in the Pacific
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the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago
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Act that provided federal funds for the construction of dams, reservoirs, and canals in the West
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The Panama Canal serves as a maritime shortcut that saves time and costs in transporting all kinds of goods
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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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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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to unmask and expose the disgraceful working conditions in the meat-packing industry in Chicago to bring light on the unsanitary way animals were kill to become process meat
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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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to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color."
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intended to give power to the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to regulate railroad shipping rates
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allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators
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the first automobile assembly line in the world
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establish a form of economic stability through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy, into the United States
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prohibits price discrimination
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when a young Serbian patriot shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Austria), in the city of Sarajevo
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caused international outrage and helped turn public opinion against Germany, particularly in the then-neutral United States
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it made the eventual defeat of Germany possible
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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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after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Although fighting continued elsewhere, the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I
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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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limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
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established a quota system to regulate the influx of immigrants to America
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the 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school