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However, when it came to digging up the potatoes, all they got was a black gooey mess. In fact, the expected bumper crop turned out to be a disaster. There was a 50% loss of potatoes in this year.
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The transcontinental railroad replaced the slower and more dangerous wagon trains.
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Three days after filing the patent, the telephone carried its first intelligible message--the famous "Mr. Watson, come here, I need you"--from Bell to his assistant.
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Law restricting immigration into the United States.
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The gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States
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A leading American politician from the 1890s until his death.
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He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million (in 2014, $13.6 billion), creating the U.S. Steel Corporation.
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Leon Czolgosz approaches him and fires two shots into his chest.
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While not creating a single park itself, the Antiquities Act enabled Roosevelt and his successors to proclaim ãhistoric landmarks, historic or prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interestä in federal ownership as national monuments,
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An automobile that was produced by Henry Ford
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An immigrant processing facility on Angel Island, in the San Francisco Bay
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Supreme Court of the United States found Standard Oil guilty of monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions.
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Allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census.
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Established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
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Guaranteeing women the right to vote
