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said missouri would be a slave state and all land 36/30 degrees North would be free
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Samuel Morse's telegraph sends the first message from D.C. to Baltimore.
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Elias Howe's sewing machine revolutionizes the way clothes are mad in home and factories.
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California was admitted as a free state, but in the other territory aquired from Mexico, voters would decide the slavery issue for themselves.
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Elisha Otis develops a safety mechanism to prevent elevator cars from suddenly falling.
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this divided the Nevraska territory into kansas and nebraska
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southern proslavery forces attacked the free-state town of Lawrence, Kansas. they looted homes, burned down a hotel, and destroyed the presses of the Kansas Free State newspaper
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Dred Scott an African American from Missouri went to the Supreme court and sued for his freedom in 1846. The court ruled against Dred but it was a good beginning to end slavery.
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Biologist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species.
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7 states from the south declare seccession from the Union.
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Lincoln was sworn in as president.said he has no purpose to directly or indirectly interfere with the institution of slavery. But wanted to perserve the Union.
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The civil war begins against the confederates and the union. Linclon calls for 75,000 people.
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The battle of gettysburg, which the union won, is the turning point of the civil war.
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Union general William T. Sherman led more than 60,000 troops on the 400 mile march of destruction. This was total war- burning of crops, tore up railroads, and building.
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Union troops captured confederate capital , Lee surrneders to Grant in Virginia town of Appomattox court house.
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Abraham Linclon was assassinated and Vice Precident Andrew Johnson becomes president.
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ENDS SLAVERY!!!!!!!!!!!
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The KKK was established. They used terror and violence against African Americans to scare them off
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Gives all people born in the United States are now citizens.
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Giving all male citizens the right to vote.
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After 1870, the number of corporations in America increased dramatically. They were an important part of industrial capitalism, or the economic free-market system contered around industries.
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Irish and Germans were joined by "new" immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. They arrived in increasing numbers until the outbreak of World War I.
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This election was between Tilden and Rutherfurd. Tildens sayys Hayes can be president if troops leave the south. Troops left the south. This ends reconstruction.
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Farmers had a difficult time. Land reform and low prices forced many farmers off their land. Some chose to come to Americato get a new start.
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Thomas Edison patents the electric light bulb.
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African American inventor Granville Woods invents an improved steam-powered furnace for running trains.
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Thousands of workers mounted a national demostrations for an eight-hour work day. Strikes erupted in several cities, and fights broke out between strikers and strikebreakers.
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The United States Senate created the Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee railroad operations. This was the first federal body ever set up to monitor American business operations.
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The Senate passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, which outlawed any trust that operated "in restraint of trade or commerce among several states."
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Many rural to urban immigrants moved to the city. the move from farm to factory was wrenching
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Being healthy, wealthy, skillful or have a sponsor are necessities for getting into the US. immigrant processing occured here.
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Strike began because of wage cuts. Public opinion of Unions began to shift.
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Strike started because of wage cuts, but living costs were not. Involved American Railway Union and Eugene Debs. Arrested for not ending strike and the Union the power
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Families lived in tenements, low cost multifamily housing designed to squeexe in as many families as possible, Terrible living conditions!
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Boston MA, ran cars underground in the nation's first subway system. this led to other cities to do the same.
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Immigrants from Eastern and Souther Europe made up mor than 70 percent of all immigrants, up from about 1 percent at midcentury