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  New York City is the biggest City in the united states.
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  New York state has the largest population of any state
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  The Erie Canal opens
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  Sojourner Truth escapes from slavery to a New York farm
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  Slavery ends in New York
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  New York's first railroad connects Albany and Schenectady
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  The second great awakening reaches its peak in Western New York
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  Hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants settle in New York during the Irish potato famine 1845-1850