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The first transcontinental railroad was built
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The Homestead Act, enacted during the civil war in 1862, provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the us government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
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Telephone was invented and allowed long distance communication
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People started making more money by factories
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He was a very weak president and he also played a huge role in politics
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William McKinley's presidency
Civil War and Reconstruction
creation of Jim Crow laws
the Great California Gold Rush
major religious revivals
bulk of the Industrial Revolution -
he republicans had quietly given up their fight for racial equality and blacks' rights in the south
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When the first light bulb was invented it allowed longer working hours
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Riding the third wave of immigration. North Carolina was largely untouched by the first two waves of immigration to the United States
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It prevented to Chinese to come to the us
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a law which was established that positions within the federal government should be awarded
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was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
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The new policy focused specifically on breaking up reservations by granting land allotments to individual Native Americans.
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He wrote a book about how he got rich and that it came out of no where
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People traveled due to the fact there was gold
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It got rid of all monopolies in the 1890
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violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6, 1892
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widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894.
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