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Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln proclaim slavery is now illegal -
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Reconstruction
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14 th Amendment Passed
Guaranteed equal protection to all people born in the U.S. -
15 th Amendment Passed
Don't let the government denying the right of vote -
Buffalo massacre
A lot of buffalo were purposely killed by US hunters -
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Manifest Destiny
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Battle of Little Bighorn
Battle between different Indian tribes and the U.S. Army -
Telephone invented
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone -
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Guilded Age
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Dawes act
Law providing create Native Americans farmers and regulate lands -
USS Maine Explodes
Ship that blew up and one of the reasons of the Spanish-American War -
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U.S. Imperialism
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Wounded Knee Creek Massacre
Battle between Indian and American soldiers -
Carnegie Steel founded
Steel company made by Andrew Carnegie and was one of the biggest companies in the world -
Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani
The queen was overthrown by business men because of the sugar -
Plessy V.Ferguson
Legalize the racial segregation but with equal facilities in both races, separate but equal -
Spanish-American War
War between the US and Spain fighting over Cuba independence -
Building of Panama Canal
The US got the Canal -
The Jungle Written
Book wrote by Upton Sinclair talking about politics -
NAACP
Organization that gives rights to African Americans -
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Progressivism
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Fire in a factory in New York killing 146 workers -
Trust-busting/breakup of Standard Oil
The break of the company because of a lawsuit -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Law to regulate child labor -
Passing of 19 th Amendment
Right to vote for the American women -
Prohibition Protests
People protest against the prohibition law because they want alcohol legal
