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Emperor Daoguang reign -
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Lily was bornBorn on the fifth day of the six month of the third year of emperor Daoguang's reign -
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John Quincy Adams lose the Presidency to Andrew Jackson -
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Lily gets a fan from Snowflower that has a message and the message is written in Nu Shu and that is a type of secret writing of women. -
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The Indian Removal Act was signed by United States President Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands. -
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Nat Turner's Rebellion, also known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, led by Nat Turner. Rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white. -
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The Liberator begins publication and it was about Religion rather than political, it appealed to the moral conscience of its readers, urging them to demand immediate freeing of the slaves. It also promoted women's rights. Despite its modest weekly circulation of 3,000, it had prominent readers such as Frederick Douglass. -
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The mechanical reaper was invented by Cyrus McCormick. This machine was used by farmers to harvest crops mechanically. For hundreds of years, farmers and field workers had to harvest crops by hand using a sickle or other methods, which was an arduous task at best. -
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Elder sister and the grandmother had both died and Elder sister died of her foot binding and the grandmother died of old age -
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Lily and Beautiful moon were looked at to see when there feet would be bonded -
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This was the day that Lily, third sister, and Beautiful Moon had there foot bonded and third sister tried to get out of it but she couldn't -
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Lily is getting ready to be married and she in nerves because she has never met the man she is going to marry and she doesn't know how her husband will treat her. -
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Lily got pregnant and so did Snowflower and they both had boys but Lily's baby was more strong than Snowflower's and there was little hope for Snowflower's son -
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Emperor xianfeng reign -
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The Nian Rebellion failed to topple the Qing dynasty, but caused the immense economic devastation and loss of life that became one of the major long-term factors in the collapse of the Qing regime in the early 20th century. -
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Taiping rebillion was a massive rebellion or civil war in China that established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. -
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Dungan Revolt was a mainly ethnic and religious war fought in western China, mostly during the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor of the Qing dynasty. The term sometimes includes the Panthay Revolt in Yunnan, which occurred during the same period. -
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Miao Rebellion was an anti-Qing uprising in Hunan and Guizhou provinces, during the reign of the Jiaqing Emperor. It was catalyzed by tensions between local populations and Han Chinese immigrants. Bloodily suppressed, it served as the antecedent to the much larger uprising of Miao Rebellion. -
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Emperor tongzhi reign -
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Lily misunderstood what Snowflower had written to her and she thought that Snowflower was trying to break of there relationship -
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Burlingame treaty between Qing china and United States -
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Yangzhou riot was a brief crisis in Anglo-Chinese relations during the late Qing dynasty. The crisis was fomented by the gentry of Yangzhou who opposed the presence of foreign Christian missionaries in the city, who claimed that they were legally residing under the provisions of the Convention of Peking. -
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Emperor Guangxu reign -
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At the end of the book Lily is rapping up her story and she is now 80 years old