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President Andrew Johnson bought Alaska for $7.2 million. After buying Alaska everyone thought that he had made a huge mistake and they were mad at him for wasting so much money. With the 49th state purchased from Russia they found a bunch of natural resources and the land had been worth more than we bought it for.
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Thomas Edison worked on perfecting the light bulb for years. His invention changed how we seen the world making it easier and safer to travel at night.
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Alexander wanted to create something that that as a "harmonic telegraph." The way that this early invention of a phone work is a current of electricity traveling through a wire that is able to transmit what we say to another location.
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Andrew Carnegie had left for a vacation in Ireland and left his plant manager Henry Clay Frick in charge. While Carnegie was in Ireland the union went on strike. During their strike Frick hired the strongest mercenary group (8 thousand militia members) at the time. Once the militia group had arrived they opened fire and killed a total of 16 people.
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After finding out that company's were putting drug's and leaving human meat to be package we passed the Pure Food and Drug Act. Company's like Coca-Cola would put cocaine into their drinks to make them more addicting and bring in more profits. Other company's such as meat company's would leave human hand/fingers or any other part of a person inside their packaging.
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Henry Ford wanted to remake a car that was massed produced and affordable to every day people. Cars that were made at the time took a long time to build and was sold for a lot of money. Henry Ford made this easy for the average working citizen by making an assembly line making production much faster and the Model T cheaper.
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The Triangle Shirt Waste Fire was a horrific tragedy in New York that could have been avoided. The Managers lock the doors on a windowless room full of hundreds of workers. Because of this event new laws were set in place to prevent anything like this in the future.
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The assassination of Austria's archduke was the start of WWI. The assassination wasn't committed by a government but by a rebel group.
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The Panama Canal is a small part out of Central America that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean making shipping goods and other items easier and faster from America and other countries.
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Once the U.S. entered in the war we sent our troops over to Britain to train for another year before we sent them into war. As the troops marched to the trenches the confidence was "god-like" to the other European soldiers.
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