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Dred Scott decision
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Oil in Pennsylvania
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Silver discovered in NC Comstock Lode
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Abraham Lincoln elected 16th president
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Period: to
Southern states secede from the Union
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Lincoln declares insurrection, blocks Southern ports
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US troops defeated at Bull Run
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Gen Robert E Lee becomes commander in chief Confederate Army
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Lee retreates to Va after many casualties at Battle of Antietam
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Stonewall Jackson dies by friendly fire
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Confederates defeated at Gerrysburg
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Grant is US commander in chief
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Sherman marches thru Georgia
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Lincoln reelected
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13th Amendment to abolish slavery is ratified
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Andrew Johnson becomes 17th president
After Lincoln is assassinated -
Johnson outlines Reconstruction
pardons former confederates who swear loyalty to US -
Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
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last armed Confederate force surrenders in New Orleans
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Civil Rights Act guaranteed citizenship and equal rights to black Americans
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Ku Klux Klan forms in Tennessee
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Nebraska 37th state
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US buys Alaska from Russia
$7.2 million -
First typewriter
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Congress impeaches Pres Johnson.
Senate acquits him by one vote -
14th Amendment gives federal protection of individual rights
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Ulysses S Grant becomes 18th president
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15th Amendment gives black males right to vote
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Susan B Anthony begins suffrage movement
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Transcontinental railroad is completed in Utah
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First women to vote
Women in Wyoming territory are first to vote -
Congress repeals NW Ordinance.
Indian tribes are no longer independent nations -
Barnum & Bailey circus opens
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Great Fire in Chicago
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Yellowstone is first national park
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500K immigrants enter the US
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Montgomery ward - first mail-order catalog
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First steel bridge over Mississippi
Eads Bridge in St Louis -
Civil Rights act gives blacks equal right in public places
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Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
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Litte Bighorn, Montana
Sioux and Cheyenne Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat Custer's cagalry -
Rutherford Hayes 19th president
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A G Bell patents telephone
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Thomas Edison lightbulb
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Woolworth 5&10 cent store
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First skyscraper
Leitner Bldg, 16 stories in Chicago -
McCormick's reaping machine factory
makes 100 per day -
Census - US has over 50M, NYCity over 1M
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Eastman cameras
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Booker T washington - tuskegee Institute in AL
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garfield 20th president - assassinated
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Congress passes act forbidding Chinese to enter US for 10 years -
Brooklyn Bridge - longest suspension bridge compleed
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SC rules Civil Rights Act unconstitutional
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Waterman fountain pen
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Statue of Liberty dedicated
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Geronimo surrenders to US troops in AZ
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regulates railroads
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Reservation lands divided up to compensate Native Americans
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2M acres of Indian land in OK - to white settlers
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Electric light installed in White House
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MT ND, SD, WA becoe states
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areas become federally protected national parks
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ID, WY become states
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last of Native American resistance
Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee, South dakota -
Sherman Antitrust Act
to curb monopolies -
US annexes Hawaii islands
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Frederick Douglass dies
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Plessy V Ferguson
SC rules segregation by race is constitutional -
Gold discovered in Yukon
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Utah 45th State
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McKinley 25th president
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US declares war on Spain
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L Frank Baum -
Army Dr Walter Reed discovers mosquitoes spread yellow fever