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Eternal Flame E asked: What major change in the United States occurred between the Civil War and the 1920s? People returned to their farms where crops grew thanks to new equipment and fertilizers. Balanced urban and rural growth led to less crowded conditions in the cities. City populations grew rap ...

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30 days ago by Ian Randal Strock

On 24 October 1855, James Schoolcraft Sherman was born in upstate New York. He represented New York in the House of Representatives from 1887 to 1891, lost the election of 1890, and then won again in 1892, serving another eight terms. In 1908 he was elected Vice President on William Howard Taft's ti ...

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195 days ago by Ian Randal Strock

On 11 May 1852, in Unionville Center, Ohio, Charles Warren Fairbanks was born. In 1874, after graduating law school, he was admitted to the bar in Ohio, and then moved to Indianapolis, Indiana. He became a railroad financier, and served as counsel to millionaire Jay Gould. In 1896, Fairbanks was ele ...

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