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8 Cards in this Set
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Name 3 of the five major world powers at the beginning of the 1900s
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United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, and Russia
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life expectancy of men and women in the 1900s was shorter or longer than in the 2000s
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shorter
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famous railroad engineer who died with his train
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Casey Jones
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standard time was instituted by
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railroads
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man who led the first expedition to reach the North Pole
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Robert Peary
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first American black woman to head a federal agency
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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famous mail train that traveled from New York to Chicago
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Fast Mail
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famous Canal built during President Theodore Roosevelt's tenure
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Panama Canal
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