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The looming U.S. Civil War delayed the sale but after the war. The Secretary of State William Seward, he took up a renewed Russian offer and on March 30, 1867 and agreed to the proposal from a Russian Minister in Washington, and his name is Edouard de Stoeck to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million.
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Its a golden spike that was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. The transcontinental railroad had long been a dream for people living in the American West.
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An American industrialist John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York. He built his first oil refinery near Cleveland also in 1870 incorporated the Standard Oil Company. By 1882 he had a near monopoly of the oil business in the U.S., but his business practices led to the passing of antitrust laws.
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He well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired mother in Canada.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. No Chinese Laborers were allowed.
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts of many others.
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Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892. Seventeen-year-old Annie Moore, from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot. No asians entered here they mainly entered on Angel Island.
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The peak years of Ellis Island's operation some 5,000 to 10,000 people passed through the immigration station every day. Approximately 80% successfully passed through in a matter of hours, but other people could be detained for days or weeks.
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The Homestead strike also known as the Homestead steel strike or Homestead massacre was an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892 culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. Many people were killed/injured this day for fighting back.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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