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The Invention of the Telephone
The telegraph and the telephone are both wired-based electrical systems and Alexander Graham Bells success with the telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to improve the telegraph. When Bell became experimenting with electrical signals the telegraph had been an established means of communication for 30 years. It was to limit the receiving and sending one message at a time. Also you got a lot more privacy then before.
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Steel and Iron
Steel is iron that has been made stronger by heating it and adding other metals. Skilled workers used to make steel in batches, but it became too expensive and challenging. The iron and steel industry is defined to include iron and steel mills. Tariffs are an important concern for both U.S. steel producers and industries that utilize significant amounts of steel. Undertaking a five year review the U.S. international trade commission voted to leave antidumping duties on hot-rolled carbon steel im -
The Gilded Age
This period in time the Gilded Age was witnessed as the creation of a modern industrial economy. Also it was an era of intense political partisanship; the Gilded Age was also an era of reform. By the beginning of the 20th century, per capita income and industrial production in the United States.
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Yellow Journalism
A term first coined during the famous newspaper wars between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. With so much competition between the newspapers, the news was over-dramatized, and altered to fit story ideas that publishers and editors thought would sell the most papers and stir the most interest for the public so that news boys could sell more papers on street corners. This is important because it was believed to be brought into play one of the most important characteristics of yellow j -
USS Maine
The USS Maine was built to go over to Havana in January 1898 to protect American interests during the long-standing revolt of the Cubans against the Spanish government. In the evening of February 15, 1898 the USS Maine sank when her forward gunpowder magazines exploded. While it was sinking the American popular opinion blamed Spain, and war followed in a few months.
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World War 1
This all triggered when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. It began in August 1914 when Germany invaded Belgium and France. On the eastern front Russia decided to stop fighting late 1917 followed by the Russian Revolution. The western front was stalemated in trench warfare for three and a half years before the United States intervened in 1917 on the side of the allies.
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The Red Scare
The Red Scare was a nationwide fear of communists, socialists, and anarchists. Innocent people were jailed for expressing there views, civil liberties were ignored, and many Americans feared that a Bolshevik-style revolution was at hand. During the Red Scare the establishment of the Soviet Union, revolution in the United States was encouraged.
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Women's rights
Some battles for women’s suffrage were won state-by-state by the early 20th century. Women finally did win there right to vote in 1920, women were so happy, when they went to vote there husband would stay home with the kids, and the chores, while the women were out doing there thing. The woman enjoyed it a lot! went to vote there husband would stay home with the kids, and the chores, while the women were out doing there thing. The woman enjoyed it a lot!
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrag
