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She was born into a bad family, with her parents troubled marriage, her youngest sisters death, and her brothers questionable dealings she could have easily turned into a different person.
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William Henry Harrison dies after 30 days in office.
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House of Repreentatives lifts the gag rule in 1844.
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The baptist church splits over the slavery issue.
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Michigan becomes the first state to abolish slavery.
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Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to get a medical degree, I believe this could have been good encouragement for Clara in the fight for wemons rights.
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Clara Barton stopped teaching to go study at Clinton Liberaal Institute in New York.
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The U,S, Navy outlaws flogging, this would be very important for anyone fighting for fair treatment of everyone.
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Clara moved to Boredentown to fix moe schools like the ones she fixed in Massachusetts.
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Clara and other female clerks were dismissed.
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Clara regains her position at a patent office.
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South Carolina votes 169-0 seceded from the Union. This event is what kick starts the Civil war.
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The first shots of the civil war are fired at Fort Sumter. The "Angel of the Battlefeild' is about to be figurativly born.
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Clara carried water to the soliders fighting in the war. It doesn't seem as hard as fighting, but running back and forth with heavy jugs of water surley couldn't have been easy.
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President Abraham Lincoln proclaims the last thursday of November as Thanksgiving day. That's a really good thing too because I look forward to that big turkey every year.
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Clara goes to Switzerland for a break from the Civil war, it must have been very difficult to help during the war. I think she deserved a break.
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Clara comes home from her trip from Switzerland after almost 4 years. While she was over there she helped with battles and aided the Red Cross, that doesn't sound like much of a vacation to me.
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Thomas Edison invents the light bulb, which helped many peoole do things that they couldn't do in the dark. You would have to live under a rock not to know and want your very own light bulb.
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Clara is made the president of the Red Cross because she basically founded it.
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Clara died at the age of 91, she was taken back to Oxford for burial.
