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This treaty ended the Mexican-American war.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
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The anti-slavery party is able to establish a government banning slavery and african americans from Kansas.
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Oregon is admitted as a state
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South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union.
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Virginia decides to secede from the Union after seeing 7 others secede. They would become vital to the Confederates as they established their capital at Richmond.
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The first paper money is issued in the US.
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The remaining Confederate states surrender and the Civil War ends.
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The US purchases Alaska from Russia
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The New Englan Woman's Club is formed. This is the first woman's club in the US.
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Johnson becomes the first presdient in US history to become impeached.
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The fifteenth amendment allowed all men to vote, not allowing the government to discriminate based on race, color, or previous servitude. This was known as the amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote.
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This gave African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and prohibited exclusion from jury service.
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Tennesse enacts the Jim Crow laws the racially segregates African Americans.
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The Bell Telephone Company was created
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Bell was credited with developing one of the earliest metal detectors. He made this to be able to find the bullet in Jame's Garfield's body.
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After only 9 years since the start of Bell's telephone company, the product's popularity had greatly increased. The total amount of users grew to 150,000.
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Washington becomes the 42nd state.
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This allowed equal trading rights in China. The countries that agreed to this were Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Japan, and the US.
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The first transcontinental phonecall is made by Bell from New York to San Francisco.