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The Missouri Compromise states that all territory above 36 30N is free land
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Martin Van Buren ran for a third party called the Free Soil Party. The Free Soil Party wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. Van Buren ended up losing the election to Zachary Taylor.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. A book that sparked in an interest in abolishing slavery in the entire United States.
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John Brown leds a group of abolitionists and murders 5 pro slavery men, this also initiates other attacks.
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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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North had Steven Douglas who supported popular sovereignty.
South had John Breckenridge
John Bell was part of the constitutional party
abe lincoln was a republican -
Abe Lincoln wins the 1860 election
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South Carolina seceeds from the union
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Seven southern states form new government
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they believe this step has to be taken due to abes presidency
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Lincoln tries to make a compromise with the south but they do not want to comply
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new laws were formed including a law prohibiting slaves being imported from other countries
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Jefferson Davis was elected president of the southern confederacy
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Confederacy took over fort sumter so union soldiers could not keep going.
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CIvil War officially begins and Lincoln wants 75,000 troops
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southern states begin to capture forts and arsenals
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The Union wins the war
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John Wilkes Booth assasinates Lincoln
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Uriah Smith Stephens founded a labor union called the Knights of Labor
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supported by wealthy industrialists like J.P. Morgan, established a research laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey
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The country's growth was fueled, in part by its vast supply of natural resources
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Some corporations tried to gain a monopoly, or complete control of a product or service.
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In 1881 alone, nearly three quarters of a million immigrants arrived in America.
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John D. Rockefeller, an oil tycoon, made deals with railroads to increase profits
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The first suspension bridge was the Brooklyn Bridge, spanning the East River in New York City. At the time of its construction in 1883, it was the longest bridge in the world
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In 1884, delegates from 27 countries divided the globe into 24 time zones
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thousands of workers mounted a national demonstration for an eight-hour workday. Strikes erupted in several cities, and fights broke out between strikers and strikebreakers.
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by 1890 the United States was outproducing British Steel manufactureers
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This outlawed any trust that operated in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states
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Factory owners, seeking to maximize profits, employed people who would work for low wages
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nearly one in five children between the ages of 10 and 16 worked rather than attending school.
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By 1900, there were more than one million telephones in the United States and more than 100,000 miles of telegraph wire linked users across the land