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Leland Stanford hammered the golden spike signifying the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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This timeline shows the most pivotal points in US history all the way from reconstruction to the war in Afghanistan
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Chinese immigrants were no longer allowed into the United States by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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On this day, the US Army ordered the Sioux people to surrender all of there arms after the Wounded Knee Massacre
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On this day, planters planned to overthrow the Queen of Hawaii.
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German U-Boats sunk the Lusitania carrying arms and innocent people
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This act forced men 18-30 to join the armed forces.
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People were unable to access their bank accounts.
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This act refinanced mortgages in danger of being unpaid
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Nazi soldiers move eastward into Poland to occupy it
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The Vietnam War was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The United States soon intervened.
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Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of a Montgomery Alabama bus.
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James Meredith was assassinated during a peaceful protest in Memphis, Tennessee
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America celebrates its first earth day.
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On this, British, Canadian, and American soldiers stormed Normandy beach on the north coast of France.
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Reagan was shot in the chest but returned to the white house two weeks later.
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On this day Operation Desert Storm was in full force.
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Timothy McVeigh put a 5,000 pound bomb inside a rent-a-truck and detonated it in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
