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Caleb Cushing signed a Treaty of Wanghia w/ China
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Treaty o Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican War
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California Gold Rush
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Fillmore assumes presidency after Taylor's death
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Pierce defeats Scott for presidency
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Kansas Nebraska Act Republican party forms
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Republican party organized
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Tariff of 1857
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Panic of 1857
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Lincoln vetoes Wade Davis Bill
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Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnsons veto
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Reconstruction Act
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Fifteenth Amendment ratified
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Standard Oil Company organized
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Force Acts
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Freedmens Bureau ended
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Panic of 1873
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Edison invents electric light
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First immigration restriction laws passed
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Chinese Exclision Act
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National Womens suffrage Association formed
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Basketball invented
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Depression of 1893 begins
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Columbian Exposition held in Chicago
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JP Morgans banking syndicate loans $65 million in gold to federal gov.
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Library of Congress opens
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Kate Chopin published "The Awakening"
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Theodore Dreiser publishes Sister Carrie
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Steel Corporation formed
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Henry Adams published "The Education of Henry Adams"
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NAACP founded