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Louisiana Purchace
Purchase of the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon for $15,000,000 -
Lowell's First Cotton Mill
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 -
Missouri Compromise
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 -
Andrew Jackson Elected
7th president of the united states, a "man-of-the-people" -
Indian Removal Act
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 Trail Of Tears
The Journy of the Cherokee to Oklahoma during which many indians died -
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Mexican American War
War Between Mexico and America which resulted in mexico ceding a huge region from texas to california. -
Compromise of 1850
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 -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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 -
Kansas Nebraska Act
a law passed by congress to establish kansas and nebraska as territories with popular sovereignity -
Bessemer process patented
a process to produce steel in large ammounts -
Bleeding Kansas
Pro Slavery forces attacked a free soil town -
Dred Scott decision
This Supreme Court ruling stated that slaves were property and that the missouri compromise was unconstitutional becuase it affected property rights -
Oil discovered in Pennsylvania
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. -
John Brown's Raid
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. -
Lincoln Elected
Lincoln, an abolitonist, elected as president -
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Civil War
War Between the north and south halves of the united states for many reasons, including states rights and slavery -
Emancipation Proclamation
a proclamation that freed all slaves which was ignored by the South -
Battle of Gettysburg
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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Shermans March To The Sea
General Sherman marched the union army from atlanta to savannah, georga, using total war -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
End of the Civil War with the Union winning -
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Reconstruction
Process of "Reconstructing" America after the Civil war -
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Black Codes
Black Codes were laws that restricted the rights of blacks -
Lincoln Assinated
Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in Fords theater -
13th amendment
made slavery illegal -
14th Amendment
made all people born in the united states citizens -
Johnson's Impeachment
President Johnson was formally charged for his crimes -
Transcontinental railroad completed
the railroad connecting the east and west coasts was completed -
Standard Oil Formed
Rockefeller formed his own oil monopoly -
15th Amendment
Everyone has the right to vote -
First telephone called
the first ever telephone call by Alexander Graham Bell -
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The Gilded Age
mark twain called it the gilded age becuase it seemed perfect on the outside but it actually wasn't -
Light bulb invented
the first successful light bulb created -
Sherman Antitrust Act
a law to prevent trusts from abusing their power. didn't work well becuase the lawyers made it vague -
Carnegie forms his Steel Company
Andrew Carnegie's steel company