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Missouri Compromise states that Missouri would be a slave state and all territory above 36 degree 30 N would be free.
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Comrpomise of 1850 states that California is free and the rest of the new territory decided by popular vote in the territory. This undid the Missouri Comprimise.
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The Republic Party campaigned on abolition. They quickly become a powerful force in politics. They lose the election in 1856
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Lincoln, lawyer at the time, was pulled into the election because of his interest in the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Douglas was popluar in th North and South.
-South: he was pro popular sovereignty
-North: he wanted the K&N territory for railroads to Chicago.
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Douglas (D) vs. John Bell (W) vs. Lincoln (R)
Lincoln wins the election. 60% of electoral votes. NO electoral votes in the South. This was the end of NATIONAL political parties. In result, South Carolina suceds from Union. Then other southern states follow. -
The meeting at Charleston declared that the union now nowsubsusting between South Carolina and the other States, under the name of the United States of America is herbey dissolved.
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Seven seceding states established the Confederate States of America. Similar to Us cont but expressed the independence of each state and had the right to secede.
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Lincoln was sworn in as President.
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Fight over slavery and or the union!
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North had victories in Mississppi and in New Orleans. The plans was to seize these places so the South could not send or receive shipments.
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Lincoln ends slaves as official war measure but it only applied to states under rebellion. It did not outlaw slavery. IT did not give free dlaves citizenship. Free slaves joined the army.
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The Union won the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. VP Andrew Johnson became president.
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14th amendment guarantees full citizenship status and rights to every person born in the U.S.
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Congress voted to impeach Johnson because of the clashes with the Radicals. The Senate narrowly voted not to remove Johnson but by that time he had lost control or reconstruction. Then Grant was voted into Presidency
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Cities from Boston to San Fran. thousands of citizens watch the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, tour the US promoting the game en route to a 57-0-1 record
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the improvement of educational facilites caused the literacy rate to reach 80% for the first time in the US
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The great chicago fire kills hundreds of people as it spread more than three miles and lasted for three days.
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Susan is arrested for casting an election ballet and more womesn start to fight for equal rights
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The GReat Plains and midwestern farms are decimated by grasshoppers
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Tilden(D) vs Rutherford B. Hayes(R)
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
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Electric Arc -light system installed in Philadelphia
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Salvation Army arrives from England
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Thomas Edison creates the incandescent lightbulb
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Andrew CArnegie offers to build a library for every American city that will maintain it
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Wiliam Jenney biulds strell-frame structure (HIB) in Chicago
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COnstruction of the first electric trolley line in Richmond, Va
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Boston builds first American Subway (N.Y. 1904)
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30% of the city residents were immigrants, some of the mjor cities and the largest representationm of immigrants