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The attempt to disarm a group of Lakota people near this site in South Dakota resulted in members of the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army opening fire and killing over 150 Lakota.

The California Gold Rush began when gold was discovered  at this location:

The term “machine politics” referred to the process by which every citizen of the city, no matter their ethnicity or race, was a ward resident with an alderman who spoke on their behalf at city hall.

The large exodus of African Americans leaving the South in the early twentieth century  to the Northeast and Upper Midwest was called.

This act established laws that set aside public land and federal funds to create land-grant colleges that were affordable to middle- class families, offering courses and degrees useful in the professions, but also in trade, commerce, industry,and agriculture.

Alexander Graham Bell was responsible for inventing:

The term “graft” refers to:

The derogatory term for American millionaires who were believed to have exploited workers and bent the laws to succeed.

What specific types of hardships did an average American farmer not face as he built his homestead in the Midwest?

This act commissioned the Union Pacific Railroad to build new track west from Omaha, Nebraska, while the CentralPacific Railroad moved east from Sacramento, California.