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America buys Alaska
America wanted to buy Alaska because they had found gold and Russia didn't want it anymore. The secretary of state William Seward bought it for 2.7 million dollars which is 2 cents an anchor. -
The Great Chicago Fire
The great Chicago fire has a legend that it all started by the O'leary family's cow kicking a lamp over. Another cause of the fire was because the entire city was made out of wood and wood is flammable. -
Elevators
Elevators were made because cities wanted to build up and didn't want people to climb up all those stairs. We still use elevators today and they are even better now because buildings are a lot taller now. -
Basketball
Basketball was created by James Naismith. he created it because he wanted a sport you could play indoors during the cold winters. -
America taking over Hawaii
America wanted Hawaii because they could grow crops year-round and most places in America didn't have that. The queen of Hawaii gave America Hawaii to save her people. -
Newsie strike
The newsie strike started because the people who gave the newsies papers raised the price by 10 cents. All the newsies went on strike, and it was successful because the adults were willing to negotiate with the newsies. -
McKinley assassin
Leon Czolgosz killed President William Mckinley. Leon was later found guilty and was sentenced to death. His last words were " I killed the president because we was the enemy of the good people - the working people." -
triangle shirtwaist company fire
The fire started because of a cigarette bud, before the fire happened the bosses thought that employees were stealing so they locked all the doors except one. When the fire happened, the elevator wasn't working. In total146 workers died. -
titanic
The titanic sunk because they were trying to avoid an iceberg, but they couldn't see it and once they did, they didn't have enough time to turn around because of the big boats small rutter. -
Panama Canel
A Panama Canel is 50 miles long that travels from the pacific to the Atlantic.
