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19th Century America

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  • Lowell's First Cotton Mill

    Typically built between 1775 and 1930, mills spun cotton which was an important product during the Industrial Revolution

  • Louisiana Purchase

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    Andrew Jackson's Time

    was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend

  • Carnegie Founds Steel

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    Trail Of Tears

    An 800-mile long trail in which over half the Cherokee population died

  • Rockefeller founds oil

  • Mexican American War

  • The Compromise of 1850 Was started but the war still went on

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    PUBLISHED!

  • Bleeding Kansas

  • The Bessemer Process Developed

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    The Black Codes

    These were laws limiting the rights of black people.

  • First Oil Well

  • John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

  • Fort Sumter, 1861, First shots are fired, thus starting the civil war

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    First Shots

    1861 First shots are fired at ort sumter on April 12, 1861

  • Pacific RailWay Act

  • Battle of GettysBurg

  • Lincoln Issued the Emancipation Proclamation

  • Northern Pacific Chartered

  • Sherman's March to the Sea

  • 13th Amendment

    This one OFFICIALLY abolished slavery

  • SURRENDER!!!!!!!!!!!!

    The South Surrenders after their land is captured

  • 12 Apr 1865. End of the CIvil War.

  • The last shot of the Civil War was fired for good.

  • 14th Amendment

    Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling by the Supreme Court (1857) that held that blacks could not be citizens of the United States

  • Rails Joined at Promontory Point

    Utah
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    The Gilded Age

    the Gilded Age refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century

  • 15th Amendment

    prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery).

  • Texas and Pacific Chartered

  • Telephone invented

  • Edison Perfected the LightBulb

  • Refrigerator car Developed by Swift

  • Sherman AntiTrust Act