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Labor unions started late 1800s
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Missouri compromise
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McCormick Reaper
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Steel plow
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Thresher
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Telegraph
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Mexican war
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Sewing machine
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Gold rush
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Harriet Tubman
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Safety pin
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Skyscraper
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Oil well drill
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Fort Sumter
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American Civil War
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Homesteading the plains
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Reconstruction
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Cattle drives in Great Plains
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Alaska was purchased
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Typewriter
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First transcontinental railroad
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Suez Canal opens
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Air brakes (RR)
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Massive immigration to America
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Barbed wire
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Carnegie builds steel mill
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Harvester
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Plains Wars
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Telephone
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First telephone conversation Alexander graham bell
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Phonograph
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Edison invents electric light bulb
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Lightbulb
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Electricity for cities
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The combine
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Signals and switches
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Jim Crow Laws created
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Kodak camera
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Progressive era
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The Panic of 1893
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Automobile is patented
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Hawaii becomes U.S. possession
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Spanish American War
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U.S. gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific islands
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United States has become a world power
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U.S. takes over Panama Canal reconstruction
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
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Airplane
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Wright brothers make first airplane fly
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First mass produced car
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Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line
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U.S. opens the Panama Canal
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World war 1
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Russian revolution
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World-wide depression
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World war 2
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First atomic bomb exploded
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Beginning of cold war
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Korean War
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American Civil rights movement
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Cuban revolution
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Assassination of kennedy
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Vietnam war
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Collapse of communism in europe
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End of Cold War and breakup of Soviet Union
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Formation of the European Union
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Terrorists successfully attack American landmarks
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EU adopts the euro
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Iraq war
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Election of Obama
