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Purchase of the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon for $15,000,000
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Francis Cabot Lowell who was the father of the factory system made a cotton mill which had many machines for producing cotton in one building
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the measures passed by congress to admit missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. also set a line at lattitude 36◦30 north of which all louisiana territory would be free
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7th president of the united states, a "man-of-the-people"
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a law passed by congress to authorize the forced resettlement of indian tribes living east of the mississippi river to oklahoma
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The Journy of the Cherokee to Oklahoma during which many indians died
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War Between Mexico and America which resulted in mexico ceding a huge region from texas to california.
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Measures passed by congress to admit california as a free state and to divide the rest of the southwest into the new mexico and utah territories where the people could decide whether they would be free states or slave states by popular sovereignity
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A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the cruelties of slavery so clearly that it increased the fervor with which both proslavery and antislavery supported their causes
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a law passed by congress to establish kansas and nebraska as territories with popular sovereignity
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a process to produce steel in large ammounts
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Pro Slavery forces attacked a free soil town
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This Supreme Court ruling stated that slaves were property and that the missouri compromise was unconstitutional becuase it affected property rights
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George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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John Brown led a force to attack a the federal armory of Harper's Ferry in order to supply weapons for a slave rebellion. no slaves came so he was eventually captured and executed.
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Lincoln, an abolitonist, elected as president
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War Between the north and south halves of the united states for many reasons, including states rights and slavery
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a proclamation that freed all slaves which was ignored by the South
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General Lee's second invasion of the north, where he fought and lost in the battle in the village of Gettysburg
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General Sherman marched the union army from atlanta to savannah, georga, using total war
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End of the Civil War with the Union winning
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Process of "Reconstructing" America after the Civil war
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Black Codes were laws that restricted the rights of blacks
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Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in Fords theater
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made slavery illegal
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made all people born in the united states citizens
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President Johnson was formally charged for his crimes
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the railroad connecting the east and west coasts was completed
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Rockefeller formed his own oil monopoly
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Everyone has the right to vote
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the first ever telephone call by Alexander Graham Bell
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mark twain called it the gilded age becuase it seemed perfect on the outside but it actually wasn't
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the first successful light bulb created
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a law to prevent trusts from abusing their power. didn't work well becuase the lawyers made it vague
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Andrew Carnegie's steel company