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Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" was published. This was a collection of poetry that Whitman spent his life writing.
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This was the second version of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" poem that was orginally printed in 1855 as a part of "Leaves of Grass"
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"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me belongs to you."
"Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?"
"Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;"
" The butcher boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market"
"The negro hold firmly the reins of his four horses, the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain"
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" A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" or "The Snake"
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The American Civil war begins in 1861 and ends in 1865. Reconstruction begins. Lincoln is assinated and the 13th Amendment is ratified which prohibits slavery
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Life Among the Piutes, Joel Chandler Harris, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story, and How Mr.Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox
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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County was published
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The 14th Amendment was passed, guarenteeing citizenship to all peoples born in the United States (excluslive of Native Americans)
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First transcontinental railroad completed by construction crews largely of Chinese laborers.
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The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that lasted until 1879
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Women's Christian Temperance Union founded in Cleveland
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Reconstruction ends and segregationist Jim Crowe laws begin
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A novella by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine. A year later it became a book!
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Thomas Edison invents the electris light bulb!
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Female lawyers are permitted to argue before Supreme Court!
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Massive amounts of immigrants from Europe come to America between 1880 and 1910
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. Prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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J.D. Rockerfeller organizes Standard Oil Trust
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Tailors' strike in New York City and bring national attention to sweatshops
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The first copy of Marlk Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" was published in England. This book has since been banned and unbanned due to the use of the racist N word. It is considered to be one of the best written novels of all time as well as the worst.
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The Statue of Liberty was given to America from France on October 28, 1886.
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The Allotment Act of 1887(also known as the Dawes Act) permits the president to divide tribally owned lands into individual allotments to be held in trust for 25 years, with "surplus" lands to be sold to non-Indians. Indians lost some 90 million acres of land by the time the Dawes Act was repealed in 1934.
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The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee
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The U.S. Bureau of the Census declares the "frontier" "to be closed". There is no more "free" or "unoccupied"
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Desiree's Baby and The Yellow Wall-Paper
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Sister Carrie
Maggie, A Girl of the Streets -
The United States population is 75 million at the start of the century
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Up from Slavery
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Henry Ford founds Ford Motor Co.,
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Wright Brothers make the first successful airplane flight
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National Child Labor Committee formed ALSO, I was born 90 years later :)
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The Mexican Revolution!
