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Missouri would be a slave state in all territory 36"30 North would be free.
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Dred Scott sued for his freedom which reached the Supreme Court.
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California is free, the rest of new territory is decided by popular vote in the territory. (undid the Missouri Compromise of 1820)
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was published by Harriet Beecher Stowe who resented agasint the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Elisha Otis develops a safety mechanism to prevent elevator cars from suddenly falling. He demonstrates his invention at an exposition in New York.
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(The Republican Party loses the election..) Dred Scott vs. Sandford Dred Scott loses.
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A controversial Supreme Court deciscion widened the growing divisions over slavery.
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Lincoln is a lawyer and politics
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Ewin Drake drilled what became the world's first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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Democrats win, North, Douglas, Southerners form and break away.
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6 states secede from the union following the secession of South Carolina.
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7 seceding states established the confederate states of America and frames a constitution for the new government resembled in the U.S. Constitution.
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Kansas enters the Union as a free state.
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Lincoln ends slavery as an "Official War Measure" which only applied to states under rebellion.
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Congress passes draft law which causes rights and protest to break out, Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus and the Union soldiers can make arrests.
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Union General William T. Sherman lead more than 60,000 troops on a 400-mile march of destruction thorugh Georgia and South Carolina.
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Union wins, Reconstruction begins.
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Amendment was ratified. Every person born in the U.S was given citizenship.
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As many as 300,000 African American adults and children were acquiring basic literacy.
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Guaranteed that no male citizen could be denied the right to vote on the a basis of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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After 1870, the number of corporations in America increased dramatically.
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destroyed 200-300 people and left more then 100,000 people homeless
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A series of bacnk failures sparked a severe economic downturn.
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TIlden (D) vs. Rutherford B Hayes (R)
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Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone
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wages were cut, led to violence
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Thomas Edison and his team invented the light bulb.
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Nearly 3 quarters of a million immigrants arrived in America.
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The Brooklyn Bridge was completed. (longest bridge in the world at the time)
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THe U.S. Senate created teh ICC to oversee railroad operations
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THe U.S. was outproducing British stell manufacturers.
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The Senate passed the act which outlawed any trust that operated "in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states."
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Drew attention to the plight of New York tenement dwellers
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cut wages, more vilence, went too far, public opinion of unions was turning
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Pullman lowered wages, did not lower the cost of living
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Guglielmo Marconi invernted the wireless telegraph
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By the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, who marked the birth of a new industry.