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Extra fact/ People (Johsph J, Pulizer (A newspaper publisher of the St.…
Extra fact/ People
Johsph J, Pulizer
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He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York.
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Adolpus Busch
German-born co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser.
Became a philanthropist, using some of his wealth for education and humanitarian needs
Alaska
Acquired by the United States in 1867, the territory was dubbed “Seward’s Folly” after U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, who arranged to purchase the land from Russia. Critics of the purchase believed that the land had nothing to offer, but the discovery of gold in the 1890s created a stampede of prospectors and settlers.
Bassmer Process
the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.
Union Stock Yards
Meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865.
Hay-PauncefoteTreaty
Treaty signed by the United States and Great Britain on 18 November 1901, as a legal preliminary to the U.S. building the Panama Canal.
Jacob Schiff
German-born American banker, businessman, and philanthropist. Among many other things, he helped finance the expansion of American railroads and the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.
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Alfred Mahan
shaped American military planning and helped prompt a worldwide naval race in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Police Gatzettle
first organized boxing sanctioning body in America, declaring its intention in 1881 and issuing championships beginning in 1882.
USS Maine
Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor in February 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April. American newspapers, engaging in yellow journalism to boost circulation, claimed that the Spanish were responsible for the ship's destruction.
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