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Missouri would be a slave state and all land above 36º 30´ would be free.
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First national labor union was founded.
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Samuel Morse perfected telegraph technology.
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This party opposed the expansion of slavery into the newly acquired land from Mexico.
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Andrew Carnegie and his family immigrated to the US.
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Van Buren of the Free Soil Party loses to Zachary Taylor of the Whigs Party.
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California entered the union as a free state. The south was guaranteed that no federal restrictions on slavery would be placed on Utah or New Mexico.
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Gave the people of Kansas and Nebraska the power do decide for themselves if they wanted slavery or not. Ended the Missouri Compramise by allowing slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
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New political party forms to combat the Kansas- Nebraska Act.
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Established to professionalize the practice of architecture.
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A department store is opened in 1858 and became the largest single store in America.
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Edwin Drake drilled what became the world's first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
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John Brown attempts to take Harpers Ferry.
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John Brown is executed while surrounded by 2000 virginia millitia. His last words were, "beautiful country, beautiful country."
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Lincoln wins the Election of 1860.
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South Carolina and other southen states secede from the union.
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The seved states that seceded from the union for the Confederate States of America.
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Freed slaves in the rebelling states.
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All capable men were to be subject to military duty.
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Lee surrenders and reconstruction begins,
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Horatio Alger published his first novel about the story of a poor boy who rose to wealth and fame by working hard.
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Uriah Smith Stephens founded a labor union called the Knights of Labor.
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The 15th Amendment is ratified that guaranteed all male citizens the right to vote.
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A fire destroys Chicago, kills between 200 and 300 people and leaves more than 100,000 homeless.
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Yellowstone Park is established in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.
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Written by Mark Twain, it depicted American society as guilded, or having a rotten core covered in gold paint.
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Baseball is organized into a buisness by the National League.
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Rutherfod B. Heyes is elected president which in turn ends reconstruction.
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The first major strike occurres in the railroad industry.
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Prohibits immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
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Lamarcus Thompson opens the world's first rollar coaster that was ten cents to ride but brought in over $600 a day in income.
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Thousands of workers mounted a national demonstration for an eight-hour workday.
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Samuel Gompers formed the American Federation of Labor.
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The ICC is created to oversee railroad operations.
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Streetcars powered by overhead electric cables are invented in Richmond, Virginia.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act is passed that outlaws any truse operation.
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In the summer of 1892, a Carnegie Steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, cuts workers' wages.
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Beginning in 1892, immigrants that arrived in New York Harnor were processed at Ellis Island.
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Written by Stephen Crane, exposed the slums of New York.
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The A.R.U. called for a nationwide strike and by June of 1894, nearly 300,000 railworkers had walked off their jobs.
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The nation's first subway system is created in Boston.
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New York follows Boston and established a subway system of their own.
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Debs helps found the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies.
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!0-year-old Edward Corsi arrives with his family from Italy. He will eventually become an immigration official.
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The term "melting pot" is used to describe America's diverse culture. The name comes from the name of a play that opened in 1908.
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The number of high schools in the nation jumps from a few hundred in 1870 to over 5,000 in 1910.
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Asian immigrants that arrived in San Francisco Bay were processed in the newly opened Angel Island.