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A train wreck kills pierces 11 year old son
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My Countrymen: IT a relief to feel that no heart but my own can know the personal regret and bitter sorrow over which I have been borne to a position so suitable for others rather than desirable for myself.
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Peirce purchased 45,535 acres from Santa Anna for $15,000,000
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This act alowed the area of kansas and nebraska to decide if they wanted allow or prohibit slavery.
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Treaty allows us ships to ener japan for trade.
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Opens trade up To Canada for timber agricultule goods Ect.
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This described the terms that the U.S. would purchase cuba from spain and if spain would refuse the U.S. would declare war.
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All people born in the U.S. become U.S. citizens
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The Sumner-Brooks Affair occurs, in which cane-wielding Representative Preston Brooks attacks abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor. The fight is provoked by conversation and derogatory remarks made two days earlier during the Senate debate on the admission of Kansas. Following the beating, Brooks is arrested and fined $500; he subsequently resigns. Sumner suffers severe injuries, taking three years to recover from the beating.
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He dies in Concord, New Hampshire from cirrhosis of the liver, from being an alcoholic most of his life.
