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-Homestead Act was encouraged Western migration because the government was giving away free land in the West. Who wouldn´t want free land?
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-Boss Tweed was an was an American politician who ran Tammany Hall, a political machine that played a major role in the politics, but was very corrupt.
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-Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1878. This meant that factory workers could now be able to work longer hours, but they would have light now.
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-The Chinese Exclusion Act a law that banned Chinese immigrants from coming into America for 10 years
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-The Gospel of Wealth was a book that Andrew Carnegie wrote that was telling rich business men to give back to the people, help them out.
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-This was an event where many prospector migrated to the Yukon Territory in North-Western Canada, in order to find gold.
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- Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the President of the United States Naval War College. Wrote "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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-The Homestead Strike (Homestead was the name of the company) was a protest that the workers had in order to get better pay and working conditions, but sadly it didn't go their way. Some of the worker were killed by some ruthless police.
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-It was a nationwide railroad strike in the US.It was the American Railroad Union against the Pullman Company
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-Dole declared Hawaii an independent republic. Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War, the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor.
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-On September 6, 1901, William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. The person who shot him was an anarchist.
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- Theodore Roosevelt was part of Progressive and Republican Party (Bull Moose)
- Square Deal (3C's), Trust Buster, Consumer, Conservation (nature)
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-It was a book that talked about a meat factory in Chicago that produced and sold meat that was rotten and had many rodents in it. (Very Unsanitary)
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-It was a car that Henry Ford came up with
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Stands for The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People it goals were to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
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-William Howard Taft was part of the Republican Party
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-The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States
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-The Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States
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-Woodrow Wilson was part of the "Democratic Party"
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-The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip.
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Chemical warfare first appeared when the Germans used poison gas during a surprise attack in Flanders, Belgium, in 1915. At first, gas was just released from large cylinders and carried by the wind into nearby enemy lines. Later, phosgene and other gases were loaded into artillery shells and shot into enemy trenches.
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The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the World War 1, Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes.
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-The government protected and preserved many national parks and monuments (nature)
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The Zimmerman Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the Germany to Mexico that told Mexico to attack the US
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The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
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U.S. Entry into World War I, 1917. On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. ... The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917.
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-The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also known as the Maas-Argonne Offensive and the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from 26 September 1918 until the Armistice of 11 November 1918, a total of 47 days.
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-The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was an armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany and the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front.
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-The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
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-The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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-Its ILLEGAL to manufacture, drink, and sell alcohol
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-It gave Women the Right to Vote
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-Return to normalcy, a return to the way of life before World War
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- The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
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-The Roaring Twenties was the period of Western society and Western culture that occurred during and around the 1920s.(Change Fashion/Music)
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- A substitute teacher was taken to court for teaching students about evolution
- Religion vs Science
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It was an autobiographical book by Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
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- Total flight time: 33 hours, 30 minutes, 29.8 seconds. Charles Lindbergh had not slept in 55 hours.
- From St. Louis to Paris, France. (Across Atlantic)
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-A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America.
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- Otherwise known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was an act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930. The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.
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- Was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The Government bought livestock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land.
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Adolf Hitler was not elected to power in Germany by an overwhelming upsurge of popular demand. The Nazi Party certainly achieved substantial support.He was the most powerful political leader in the country, but was a demagogue with no experience of government and they believed they would be able to bring him under control
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- Preserves and promotes public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and thrift institutions for at least $250,000; by identifying, monitoring and addressing risks to the deposit insurance funds; and by limiting the effect on the economy
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- The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought
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The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Kristallnacht owes its name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets in the wake of the pogrom—broken glass from the windows of synagogues, homes, and Jewish-owned businesses plundered and destroyed during the violence.
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Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, and was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. US entered war because of this
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The popular name of a group of African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II.
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The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater.
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World War II policy with lasting consequences for Japanese Americans. The document ordered the removal of resident enemy aliens from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas
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During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States had dropped the bombs with the consent of the United Kingdom as outlined in the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed at least 129,000 people
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the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. ... On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri.
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