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To ease southern concerns, Congress debated and then passed the Compromise of 150
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Sold 300,000 copies in its first year, increasing antislavery sentiment in the North.
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Mac'ys becomes the first department store.
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Congress passed the Kansas Nebraska Act which edivided the nebraska territory into kansas.
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Southern proslavery forces attacked the free-state town of Lawerence, Kansas.
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He was an enslaved Black Slave from Missouri, sued for his freedom in 1846.
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Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species" arguing that animals envolved by a process of "natural selection"
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As soon as Lincoln's election was confirmed, the south Carolina legislature summoned a state convection. Meetin in Charleston on December 20, 1860, and without a dissenting vote.
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7 states from the south declare seccessions from the Union.
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Kansas entered the Union as a free state.
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Lincoln was sworn in as President.
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Lincoln attempted to avoid a war with one last compromise.
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President Lincoln declared that "insurrection" existed and called for 75,000 men
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This draft law helped put more people in the war.
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The KK was established the where people who still wanted blacks to be slaves.
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Horatio Alger PUblished his first nove;, Ragged Dick or Street life in New York.
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Uriah Smith Stephans founded a labor Union called Knights of Labor.
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The building of the Brooklyn Bridge starts.
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Congress responded by setting aside protected lands that would eventually become of the National Park Service.
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Tiden wins popular vote. Hayes can become president if troops leave the south.
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Railroads became a much easier way to travel and transport goods.
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Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
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In 1887, the United States Se ate created the Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee railroad operations.
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Many immigrants moved to the city un the 1890's because there was many jobs available.
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In 1890, the Senate passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, which outlawed any trust that operated "in res
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European immigrants were requierd to pass threw ellis island to become american.
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The workers wages were cut and they went on strike.
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The Wright Brothers flew the very first Airplane
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Angle island in Calirfornia the place where immigrants went to so they can prove that they were american citizens.
