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Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
A transcontinental railroad is a contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders -
Industrialization Begings to Boom
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s, manufacturing was often done in people's homes, using hand tools or basic machines. -
Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th -
Telephone Invented
was the culmination of work done by many individuals, and involved an array of lawsuits founded upon the patent claims of several individuals and numerous companies. -
Reconstruction Ends
The second sense focuses on the attempted transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877, as directed by Congress, with the reconstruction of state and society. With the three Reconstruction Amendment -
Light Bulb Invented
Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp and on October 14, 1878, Edison filed his first patent application for "Improvement In Electric Lights -
Third Wave of Immigration
North Carolina was largely untouched by the first two waves of immigration to the United States. Between 1840 and 1889, the U.S. received 14.3 million immigrants -
Chinese Exclusion Act
United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers -
Pendeleton
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Dawes Act
federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. -
Interstate Commerce Act
is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices -
Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of wealth
is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June[4] of 1889[5] that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich -
Chicago’s Hall House
was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located in the Near West Side -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890 -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
How the other Half Lives
It served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle classes. This work inspired many reforms of working-class -
Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s. -
Homestead Stell Labor Strike
was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892 -
Pullman Labor Strike
was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law. It pitted the American Railway Union -
Timespan Theodore Roosevelt
Republicans and progressive Hulu moose party -
Assassination of President McKinley
William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York -
The Jungle
American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by W. E. B -
16th Amendment
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Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States -
Timespan William Howard Taft
Political party Republican
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17th Amendment
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Trench Wafare, Poison Gas Machine guns
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Timespan world war
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Sinking of the Louisiana
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National Parks System
is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. -
Zimmerman Telegram
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18th Amendment
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors -
19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Timespan Woodrow William Wilson
Political party Democrat
Domestic policy: Clayton Anti-Trust Act,
National Parks Service Federal Reserve Act,
Act, 18th/19th amendment