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Samuel Clemens was born in a small town in Missouri.
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The Great Compromiser, strikes again stating that states should have popular sovereignty between whether or not States are free or enslaved.
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At the age of 15, Samuel leaves school and goes to work as a printer in Hannibal.
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A well written literary device for slavery, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri between 1854 and 1858. At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state. As such, Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of slavery
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Samuel Clemens begins a successful two-year apprenticeship to become a licensed river pilot. He learns the lingo of the trade, including "mark twain," a phrase that refers to the river depth at which a boat is safe to navigate. He soon adopts it as his pen name.
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Twain's youngest brother Henry is killed tragically at the age of 20 in an explosion on the steamboat Pennsylvania. Henry had been training to become a steamboat pilot, at Twain's encouragement. Twain, devastated by his brother's death, feels responsible for it for the rest of his life.
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Abraham Lincoln, President at the time, was called upon Fort Sumter stating that confedrates were attacking becoming the start of the Civil War
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Twain travels to northern California, visiting Calavaras County before settling in San Francisco.
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Twain is introduced to Olivia "Livy" Langdon, the sister of a friend. He is instantly smitten.
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Mark Twain's first book, The Innocents Abroad, becomes a bestseller.
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Twain marries Olivia Langdon, who becomes an important editor of his work. Their son Langdon is born later that year.
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Daughter Clara is born, the only one of Twain's children to outlive her father.
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Mark Twain writes his first novel about his childhood, in Hannibal, and his secret admirer Becky Thatcher.
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Livy Clemens gives birth to the couple's fourth and final child, a daughter named Jean.
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Mark Twain writes his second most famous book, which is about
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His finances in shambles following a series of poor business decisions, Twain moves his family from Hartford to Europe for cheaper living.
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Twain's 24-year-old daughter Susy dies of meningitis in the U.S. while Twain is lecturing in Europe. Twain, who was particularly close to his oldest daughter, is devastated. He never fully recovers from her death, which marks the end of his most successful period as a writer.
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Twain's youngest daughter Jean Clemens dies.
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Mark Twain died in Redding, Conneticut. He is known by his pen name and his wonderful storytelling adventures. Despite his wonderful works of literature he fell into bankcruptcy and died, however very happy. “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
