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The Free-Soiled party wanted to prevent the expansion of slavery into wester territorries.
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In 1850 California applied to enter the Union as a free state, threatening the balance of power between slave states and free states et the State. To ease southern concerns, Congress debated and then passed the Compromise of 1850. According to this measure, California was admitted as a free state.
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Opposition to slavery led to the creation of the new Republican Party in 1854. Republicans included abolitionists, anti slavery business leaders, and northeners who argued that the Fugitive Slave Act intruded into state politics.
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In these years , architecture evolved. So the AIA was established to practice architecture.
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First department store in NY opened by Rowland Macy
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Edwin Drake drilled what became the world's first oil well, in Titusville, Pennslyvania.
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Biologist Charles Darwin published this book, arguing that animals evolved by a process of natural selection and that only the fittest survived to reproduce.
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Book published by Charles Darwin talking about evolution
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Abe Lincoln won the election after competing against Bell, Breckinridge, and Douglas. But he was sworn president in March 4 1861.
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Southerners were outraged that a President could be elected without a single souther vote, therefore, they seceded. The first state was South Carolina, in december 20, 1860. In the next few weeks six other states of the Deep South seceded.
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After killing and violence, and after being named "Bleeding Kansas", Kansas enters the Union as a free state.
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The Confedaraty is formed in February 1861, the seven seceding states established the Confederate States of America. Then they proceeded to frame a constitution for the new government. The Confederate constitution closely resembles the U.S. Constitution.
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Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, this presidential degree declares that all the slaves are free.
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Congress passes a draft law in 1863, requiring all able-bodied men between the ages of 20 and 45 to serve in the military if called.
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Due to the draft law, a severe riot took place in NYC. White workers attacked free African Americans as well as the wealthy New Yorkers who were able to pay a fee to avoid military service.
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In the fall of 1864, Union general William T. Sherman led more than 60 000 troops on a 400mile march of destruction through Georgia and South Carolina. The march was part of a strategy of total war, wich targeted not only troops but all of the ressources needed to feed, clothe, and support in the army. Sherman's army destroyed everything.
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Union troops captured the Confederate capital. On april 9, Lee surrendered to Grant.
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The civil war ended with the Union victorious. The north and South then faced the challenge of reunion.
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Abe Lincoln was assassinated, therefore, Vice President Andrew Johnson became President.
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Ny installs elevated transit with steam driven engines
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By 1869, as many as 300 000 African American adults and children are acquiring basic literahy. The schools quickly filled.
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Knights of Labor founded by Uriah Smith
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A fire in Chicago occured, destroying everything and making a lot of homeless people.
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Creation of the Yellowstone park in 1872 was one of the first federal responses to concerns about environment.
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San Fransisco installs steam driven cable cars
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The presidential election of 1876 signaled the end of Reconstruction. Democratic candidate Samuel tilden won more popular votes than the Republican candidate Rutherford Hayes, but the electoral vote was in dispute.
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Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone
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Thomas Edison perfected the light bulb
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Limited the rights of chinese immigrants in the US
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Delegates from 27 countries divided the globe into 24 time zones, one for each hour of the day.
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Lamarcus Thompson invented roller coaster, ten cents the ride.
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Samuel Gompers creates the AFL Union
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Strike against government
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The United States Senate created that to oversee railroad operations.
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Interstate commerce commission created by the united states senate to oversee railroad activities
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Strike against government
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Richmond introduces streetcars powered by overhead electric cable
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The Senate passed the Act, wich outlawed any trusts that operated in restraint of trade or commerce amoung several states.
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JR draws attention on tenenments, dissing them.
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James Naismith inveted basketball at the Springfield YMCA.
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Strike economic depression
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Processing center for immigrants open at Ellis Island
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Strike
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Boston made the cars run in a subway system to prevent traffic
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The first successful airplane flight occured in 1903 by brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bycicle manufacturers, marked the birth of a new industry.
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After Boston, NY does the same.
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