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Abraham loncoln (republican) won the election of 1860. After this, south carolina and other six states seceded the union.
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Was the place where the civil war begins. Confederate forces fired the first shot on the fort.
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Was the turning point of the american civil war.North defeated southern forces and General Ulysses S. Gant captured Vicksburg.
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The 13th amendment to the united states contitution abolished slavery.This amendment was ratified in 1865.
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This act devided the south into military occupation zones.Creating five military districst in the south.
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The amendment deals with citizenship rights and equal protection under law.Response to issues related to former slaves after the civil war.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.The telephone was created while Alexander was trying to improve the telegraph
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This strike ocurred at andrew carnegie's US steel plant located in homestead.The workers struck because carnegie had cut their pay several times.
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The Coal Strike was a strike by the United Mine workers of america in pennsylvania.Miners were on strike asking better wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union
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Was a treaty between the united states and Cuba. This amendment attempted to protect cuba's independence from foreign intervention.
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The Wright brothers made and flew the first airplane.They also were the first to produce an aircraft for the military.
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The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the Russo-Japanese War.President Roosevelt helped Japan and Russia negotiate the treaty.
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The amendment states that representatives of each states of the united states be represented by two senators.Only ten of the states of the unted states opposed the ratification
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This amendment gave congress the power to lay and collect taxes on income. Making a federal tax on individual incomes possible.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo. His death is the event that begins World War I.
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77.1-kilometre ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.Panama gave controle over this zone to the united states for its cooperation on wartime.
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Zimmermann Telegram was a messege proposing that Mexico join with Germany in case of war between Germany and the United States. In return, Germany promises to return to Mexico the lost territory in the united states
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Was a supreme court veredict that upheld the Espionage Act of 1917.The court ruled that Schenck did not have any right to express freedom of speech against the draft during WWI.
