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George Washington becomes first president of the United States
George washington served two terms as the president of the united states. Both times, he was voted Unanimously for presidency by the american people. -
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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John Adams levels up
After George Washington died, the second president of the united states- who was the first presidents Vice President- was elected to run for president under the federalists party. He had many of the same values as Washington in office and ended the Quasi-War against france in 1798. -
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence -
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James Madison
James Madison Jr. was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 -
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James Monroe
James Monroe was an American statesman who served as the fifth President of the United States from 1817 to 1825. -
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John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, minister and ambassdor to foreign nations, and treaty negotiator, United States Senator, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts -
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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 183 -
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people ever. -
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Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was an American statesman who served as the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. -
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J.P. Morgan
Martin Van Buren was an American statesman who served as the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. -
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John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history. -
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William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison Sr. was an American military officer, a principal contributor in the War of 1812, and the ninth President of the United States -
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John Tyler
John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845 after briefly being the tenth Vice President; he was elected to the latter office on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison. -
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James K. Polk
James Knox Polk was an American politician who served as the 11th President of the United States. He previously was elected the 13th Speaker of the House of Representatives and Governor of Tennessee -
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Suffrage Movement
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Finland, Iceland, Sweden and some Australian colonies and western U.S. states in the late 19th century. -
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Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. Before his presidency, Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general -
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Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House. -
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Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States. Pierce was a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation -
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James Buchanan
James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. He is the only president to remain a lifelong bachelor. -
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. -
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Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln -
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of violence, is the most infamous — and oldest — of American hate groups. Although black Americans have typically been the Klan's primary target, it also has attacked Jews, immigrants, gays and lesbians and, until recently, Catholics. -
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Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was a prominent United States Army general during the American Civil War and Commanding General at the conclusion of that war. He was elected as the 18th President of the United States in 1868, serving from 1869 to 1877 -
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Gilded Age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. -
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The Age of Imperialism
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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James A. Garfield
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Chester A. Arthur
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Invention of machine guns
This rapid-firing weapon was known as the Gatling gun. The first Gatling guns were used in the American Civil War. These guns were rapid-firing, but they depended on the arm of the operator to crank out the bullets. In 1884, Hiram Maxim invented the first machine gun -
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Grover Cleveland
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Benjamin Harrison
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Adolf Hitler
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Progressive Era
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Temperance Movement
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Grover Cleveland Part 2
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Babe Ruth
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Inventions of the submarine
The Irish inventor John Philip Holland built a model submarine in 1876 and a full scale one in 1878, followed by a number of unsuccessful ones. In 1896, he designed the Holland Type VI submarine. This vessel made use of internal combustion engine power on the surface and electric battery power for submerged operations. -
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William McKinley
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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. She disappeared after flying over the bermuda triangle and is still unfound -
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Spanish American War
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USS Maine Explosion
At 9:40pm on February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 268 men and shocking the American populace. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
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The Jungle was written
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities -
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William Howard Taft
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. -
17th amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. -
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16th Amendment
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Woodrow Wilson
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World War 1
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Jazz age
The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular, mainly in the United States, but also in Britain, France and elsewhere. The Jazz Age is often referred to in conjunction with the Roaring Twenties. -
18th amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
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Paris Peace Conference
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Treaty of Versailles
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19th amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
"Electrify your home!"
As documented in EC&M's archives, the '20s brought improved power transmission and gave a tremendous impetus to the electrical industry. -
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roaring twenties
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League of Nations
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Nazi Party
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Warren G. Harding
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Calvin Coolidge
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air commerce act
On this day in 1926, Congress passed the Air Commerce Act, placing in federal hands responsibility for fostering air commerce, establishing new airways, improving aids to navigation, and making and enforcing flight safety rules. -
First solo nonstop transalantic flight
The First Solo, Nonstop Transatlantic Flight. On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. -
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Herbert Hoover
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States. -
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Hollywood's golden age
Classical Hollywood cinema, classical Hollywood narrative, and classical continuity are terms used in film criticism which designate both a narrative and visual style of film-making -
The bonus army
Bonus Army was the name for an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
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Concentration camps
concentration camps were an integral feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest -
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The holocaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945 -
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Seabiscuit
seabiscuit was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. A small horse, Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression. -
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War Admiral
War Admiral was an American thoroughbred racehorse, best known as the fourth winner of the American Triple Crown and Horse of the Year in 1937, and rival of Seabiscuit in the 'Match Race of the Century' in 1938. -
Nuremberg laws
The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany. They were introduced on 15 September 1935 by the Reichstag at a special meeting convened at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party -
Max Baer vs. James Braddock
Jim Braddock v. Max Baer. Jim Braddock - a 10 to 1 underdog - stunned boxing fans everywhere when he defeated the reigning champion, Max Baer, on the 13th of June, 1935. ... Braddock - who became known as the "Cinderella Man" - won the fight by decision. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and German civilians. The German authorities looked on without intervening.[1][2] The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed. -
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Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and German civilians. The German authorities looked on without intervening.[1][2] The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed. -
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world War 2
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cold war
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Killing centers of the holocaust
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Nuremberg trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II.
