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Period of time of massive starvation and disease in Ireland.
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Political pamphlet created by Karl Marx it inspired the russian revolution.
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A new way of making steel that makes it easier and cheaper. Permitted the development of more advanced structures.
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First oil well in the US located in Pennsylvania, it propulsed the country into an oil age.
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The United States bought Alaska from Russia for 123 million dollars of today money.
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Was an act made by the US that prohibited the entrance of chinese immigrants to the US.
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Poem written by Emma Lazarus with the objective of raising money for the construction of the Statue of Liberty.
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A riot between chinese and white miners, was the result of racial tensions between the miners, it ended with the dead of 28 chinese miners and the burning of their homes.
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Book written by Jacob Riis that documented the poor living conditions of people living in New York City slums.
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Hull House Was a settlement house co founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Was build in Chicago with the objective of helping poor people in bad living conditions.
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Was a dispute between steel workers and private security agents. It was the result of the workers trying to protect unions and wages.
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The USS Maine was an american dreadnought sent to La Habana, Cuba to secretly help with the Cuban revolution. The 15 of february explodes killing three quarters of the crew, the cause was an accidental ammo rack.
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Many US farmers in independent Hawaii since 1790, US sees Hawaii as a stepping stone across the Pacific to Asian markets. After a “revolution” on Hawaii, finally its annexed in 1898c.
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Philippines becomes a US colony, to uplift and educate filipinos. Emilio Aguinaldo turns on US, leads Philippine Insurrection, Guerrilla warfare vs the US occupation after the ww2.
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Was a poem written in 1899 by Rudyard Kipling, the poem talks about Philippine American War and it invites the US to conquer the Philippines.
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Guarantees some land in Cuba for the US. Forbids Cuba for having treats with any European government, and allows the US to establish government officials.
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The US government asked Colombia if they could build the canal and Colombia denied them. A few years later there was an independence movement in Panama against Colombia. So the US applied something called Gunboat diplomacy. They placed several ships in the coast of Panama for when the Colombian government tried to shut down the independence they will fail, and so they did. Panama became a country of their own by 1904.
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It occurred in March 25 of 1911, and was a fire that started in a textile factory in New York where the workers were mostly women, the emergency doors were close to prevent them from taking unauthorized breaks. The women were not able to escape so they started jumping from the windows to prevent burning alive.
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Franz Ferdinand was assassinated 1914, by a group of Serbian terrorist this lead to Austro Hungary declaring war to Serbia.
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Was an attack from the Colorado National Guard to a tent colony of strike workers, they set the tents on fire killing women and children and some miners.
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The Lusitania was a british merchant ship that was victim of a german u boat, around 120 americans died, it was one of the cause of the US entering in WW1.
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A note sent by Germany to Mexico saying that if the US gets into war against Germany, Mexico should declare war on the US.
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A treaty signed between Soviet Russia and the central power that ended Russia's participation on WW1.
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The peace treaty that bring World War 1 to an end.
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The League of Nations was an American idea created by President Woodrow Wilson during the negotiations leading up to the Treaty of Versailles, the agreement that officially ended World War I. The US reject it because they believed that this article allowed the League of Nations to force the United States to commit its military and economic power in places that were not beneficial to the country.
