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On this date, the Republican Party is started. To go against the Kansas Nebraska Act. The Republican Party was started as a response to many issues that caused trouble to a lot of political parties in the U.S. and to stop the spreading of slavery.
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Abraham Lincoln wins the election for Presidency. Many looked forward to the end of slavery, rescue of the Union, to reconstruct, and to provide equal rights to every man in the American Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln is shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth.
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president after William McKinley is assassinated.
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Prohibition is passed, due to the ratification of the 18th Amendment. Which prohibited the sale, transportation, and manufacturing of alcohol/alcoholic beverages.
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Herbert Hoover serves as president from March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933.
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The start of the Great Depression, this stock market crash was known as "Black Tuesday"...which resulted in the Depression lasting 10 years.
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President Hoover loses his presidency to the 32nd president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, due to the Great Depression.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the President, thus ending a 20 year winning streak for the Democrats.
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Years after, Richard M. Nixon is elected President of the U.S. One of the more infamous presidents, due to his latter years.
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Nixon resigns his presidency after the Watergate scandal.
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After Nixon steps down as president...Gerald Ford becomes the first and only person to serve as President and VP.
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Ronald Reagan serves as president from 1981 to 1989 and brought about the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.
