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An amendment allowing no person to be free. No more slaves of any kind. All persons had an equal shot at life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -
The westward expansion of the United States was supposed to happen. It was meant to be and it was DeStInEy.
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The time period following US Civil War. The country needed to rebuild itself and take care of all Americans.
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US Secretary of State William Seward negotiated with Spain to gain Alaska -
Blacks gained the right to vote. This did not mean that they would not get beaten up for voting, but they gained the right. -
period of rapid economic growth
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the first telephone. -
Battle in present-day Montana where Lt. Col. Custer and all of his troops were killed by Lakota and Sioux Indians -
Overthrowing Hawaiian Queen. -
Group of whites creating an African-American hate group -
Act that distributed land to individual Native Americans in hopes to make them "responsible farmers". -
Thousands of Lakota Native Americans were slaughtered by United States Army in the Battle of the Wounded Knee. -
Steel created launching one of the first and most powerful monopolies in American history and making Andrew Carnegie one of the most well-known American businessmen. -
social activism and political reform
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Court battle stating that segregation did not violate the constitution. -
Spain and America fighting over Cuba -
Article exposing the bad parts of the meat production industry -
Act requiring meat processing plants to be inspected -
Protests to ban alcohol. -
Expanding US and WW1
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Breaking up trusts, specifically Standard Oil -
Fire in a shirt factory that launched the labor rights movement -
Building of canal to be able to go through central America -
Act setting boundaries for kids working -
Women can vote.