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Missouri Compromise
The legislation that provided for the admission to the United States of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state. -
Compromise of 1850
a set of five bills proposed by Republican Senator Henry Clay -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri -
Southern States leave the Union
11 Confederate states left. -
Lincoln Elected President
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Shots fired at Ft. Sumter
the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, started the American Civil War. -
1st Battle of Bull run
Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Gettysburg
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of the Northern states -
Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox
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Lincoln Assassinated
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13th Amendment Passed
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Reconstruction of the South
Laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union -
Transcontinental Railroad
The completion of the transcontinental railroad made the American West easily accessible, creating a boon of trade, business and population. -
15th Amendment-Blacks Suffrage
Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
Custer's Last Stand
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. -
Edison Invents the Lightbulb
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New Immigrants being to come to America
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Wounded Knee Massacre
an attempt was made to arrest the famous Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, during which a fight broke out and the chief was killed. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
McKinley Assassinated
the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York -
Wright Brothers First Airplane Flight
Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. -
WWI Begins
The immediate cause for World War 1 was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his pregnant wife Sophie. -
US Enters WWI
US votes to send troops to Germany