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New york “boss” William tweed and his “tweed ring” of municipal crooks cost the city of new york an estimated two hundred million dollars.
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Is the first author of realism to achieve wide popularity
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USA ceased to be the simple orgarion democrary that Jefferson had cherished. People numbers ceased to “ labor in the earth” and moved to towns and cities to labor on the machines of new industries
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The first official step toward nationwide racial equality was made when the thicteentl amendement to the constitution was adopted, abolishing slaverly within the USA.
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Reconstruction acts set to protect black freedom and voting rights were established for blacks
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The first transcontinental railroad was completed, linking the atlantic and pacific.
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Twains nostalgic recollections of his early boyhood stirred him to write "Tom Sawyer"
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Rights for blacks began to erode; separate and unequal schools and public facilities were created.
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The railroads even changed the way americans kept time when the more than fifty-six time zones in the USA were reduced to four
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Mark Twain published "Huckleberry Finn"one of the greatest books of world in literature.
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War to world war 1, Steel production in the USA increased more than six hundred times , and Steel making became the nations dominant industry.
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Emily Dickinson has her first collection of poetry published 4 years after her death
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- most famous literary women in the world -
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Native amercian culture had been ruined by the destruction of the buffalo and by the White man land hunger, his gold fever and his whiskey and diseases
