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Members of the U.S. house of representatives returned from their dinner break and resumed their discussion of the ongoing war with Mexico.
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Vicory in the Mexican war added 500,000 square miles to the United States.
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President James k. Polk announced that gold hd been found in California.
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In 1850 senator Henry Clay of Kentucky once again urged congress to compromise on the issue of slavery in the territories.
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The compromise of 1850 accomplished most of what clay had wanted.
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After the 1860 election many slave states left the union th form the confederacy.
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Dc. Elizedeth blackwell, the first woman to receive a licence to practice medicine.
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A union force advanced down the mississippi river from illinois
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grant led a union army into tennesee
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the confederates began the battle of shiloh, catching grant by surprise.
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general grant tried a new approach in the spring of 1863.
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Pemberton surrendered vicksburg.