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Homestead Act
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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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Industrialization Begins to Boom
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Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
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Telephone Invented
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Reconstruction Ends
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TIMESPAN: Gilded Age
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Light Bulb Invented
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3 rd Wave of Immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act
U.S. federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10
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Pendleton Act
U.S. federal law requiring federal jobs to be awarded on the basis of merit
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Dawes Act
“Excess” land would be put on the open market, allowing
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
The article was published in the North American Review, an opinion magazine for America's establishment -
Klondike Gold Rush
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices -
Homestead Steel Labor Strike
The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike or Homestead massacre -
Pullman Labor Strike
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States -
• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)
-The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August.
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• Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns (1914)
-during the World War I Technology during was reflected a trend toward industrialism bc they really didn't have that much technology and Also The application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general. -
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• TIMESPAN: World War I (1914- 1918)
The World war I was often abbreviated as WWI or WW1) was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July -
• Sinking of the Lusitania
The sinking of the Lusitania was U-boat torpedoed the British-owned steamship Lusitania, killing many people like about 1,195 people including 128 American. -
• Zimmerman Telegram (1917)
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• Russian Revolution
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• U.S. entry into WWI
-The entry of the United States into World War I changed the course of the war, and the war, in turn, changed America.
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• Battle of Argonne Forest
The Meuse–Argonne offensive was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front
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Armistice
The Armistice of 11 November 1918, that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last remaining opponent, Germany -
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
-The Fourteen Points were a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress
- Fourteen Points ultimately failed after France and Britain refused to adopt some specific points and its core principles