If you look at the years of the states and write down the ones in 1889 and 1900, it gets easier. Three that I got were Wshington, Montana, and South Dakota (I'm sure there are more but those were three).
They started the settlement on the island of Hispaniola.
Columbus was the first explorer they sponsored.
They discovered the Mississippi River, San Salvador, and the Pacific Ocean.
Germany under Hitler and Italy under Mussolini
African Americans couldn't get education and if they did the budget was really low