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American Civil War
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Homestead Act
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13th Amendment
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Reconstruction
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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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Gilded Age
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• Light Bulb Invented
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3rd wave of immigration
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• Chinese Exclusion Act
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• Pendleton Act
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Dawes Act
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• Interstate Commerce Act
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• Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
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• Klondike Gold Rush
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• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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• Homestead Steel Labor Strike
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• Pullman Labor Strike
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Model-T
he Model T is Ford's universal car that put the world on wheels. The Model T was introduced to the world in 1908. Henry Ford wanted the Model T to be affordable, simple to operate, and durable. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
British forces first used tanks during the Battle of the Somme in September 1916. They had a dramatic effect on German morale and proved effective in crossing trenches and wire entanglements, but they failed to break through the German lines. -
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Sinking of the Lusitania
On May 7, 1915, 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. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children on board, 1,195 perished, including 123 Americans. -
• Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. -
Russian Revolution
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U.S. entry into WWI
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Battle of Argonne Forest
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Armistice
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Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
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Treaty of Versailles
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President Harding’s Return to Normalcy
Return to normalcy, referring to a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's promise was to restore the United States' pre-war mentality, without the thought of war tainting the minds of the American people -
• Harlem Renaissance
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Red Scare
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Roaring Twenties
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and premier of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the Soviet Union as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s. -
Scopes “Monkey” Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school -
Charles Lindbergh’s Trans-Atlantic Flight
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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
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Stock Market Crashes “Black Tuesday”
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Great Depression
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Hoovervilles
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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100, 000 Banks Have Failed
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Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)
The Agricultural Adjustment Act 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 on part of their land. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Dust Bowl
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Social Security Administration (SSA)
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Bill Clinton
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Contract with America
The Contract with America was a legislative agenda advocated for by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election campaign. Wikipedia
