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The United States acquired the Louisiana territory from France in exchange from 15 million dollars.
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Napoleon Bonaparte's final defeat after 23 years.
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Missouri is admitted as a slave state but slavery is then barred in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30' N.
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The first camera for commerical manufacturing was invented by Alphonse Giroux.
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A conflict between the United States and Mexico which stemmed from the annexation of Texas by the U.S. and later its borders.
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gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. This brought around 300,000 people to California.
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A anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe which heated things up leading to the Civil War.
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Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States.
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Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor.
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An order by the United States which declared all slaves within the rebellious states free.
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Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
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John Wilkes Booth shot and killed Abraham Lincoln in his box at Ford's Theater in Washington.