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Santa Anna attacks the Alamo, which backfires, rallying Texans and Southerners
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Manifest destiny fueled 240,000 people to move west
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The first telagraph message is sent from Washington DC to Baltimore, Maryland
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Congress annexes Texas, but Mexico refused to recognize it. This led to the one-sided Mexican American War
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the sewing machine reolutionized the way clothes were made in homes and in factories
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Gold is discoverd in Califorina starting the Gold Rush and causing the population to rise from 14,000 to 225,000
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The Free-Soil Party is formed, which focused on the prevention of slavery expansion
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This divided the U.S. on the 36 degree, 30 N showing where slavery was legal
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published influcencing the civil war
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Elisha Otis devlopes safty mechanism to prevent elevator cars from falling
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proslavery men attack the Free-Soil town of Lawrence, Kansas
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Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species, arguing that animals evolved by a process of natural selection
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in February of 1861 7 seceding states formed the Confederate States of America
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Lincoln calls for 75,000 men to fight against the Confederacy after the fall of Fort Sumpter
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The Union outfitted and launched more than 250 warships to block southern ports
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North had captured the Mississippi Valley and the strategic railroad junction at Cattanooga, Tennessee
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The proclamation allowed any slave who reached a free state, to be free.
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The battle of Gettysburg was the turing point for the Union, in which they started to push back the Confederates
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by this time the conferderacy was running out of reasourses and were exhausted making it easy for the Union to capture them
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In a small Virginia town of Appomattox Court House Lee surendered to Grant
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the 14th amendment was ratified which guaranteed full citizenship status and rights to evry person born in the US
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Horatio Alger published his 1st novel Ragged Dick, or Street Life in New York
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Uriah Smith Stephens founded a labor union called the Knights of Labor
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steam ships make journeys across the Atlantic more safe
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americas greatest railroad strike in history happens
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Thomas Edison patens the electric light bulb. Within 2 years, he installs a street-lighting system in New York City
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over 3 quarters of a million immigrants qrrived in America
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Terence V. Powderly took on the leadership of the Knights of Labor.
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The Brooklyn Bridge was finished in 1883, it was a construction feet during that time
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Affrican American inventor Granville Woods invents an improved stem-powered furnace for running trsins
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in 1884, 27 countries divided the globe into 24 time zones, one for each hour of the day.
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the Knights had grown to have 700,000 men and women nation wide.
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after a series of failed strikes the Kinghts had largely disappeared
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By this time America was out producing Great Britain steel manufacturers
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all immigants were processed at Ellis Island
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Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act
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many rural-to-urban migrants moved to the cities in search of new jobs
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Boston creates first subway system
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There are over one million telaphones in the US, and more that 100,000 miles of telephone wire linked across the land
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New York opens it's first ever subway in the city