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Aroostook War breaks out over Maine boundary

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1839

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Canadian rebellion and Caroline incident

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1837

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Antislavery Liberty party organized

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1840

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Harrison dies after four weeks in office

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1841

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Tyler assumes presidency

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1841

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Webster-Ashburton treaty

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1842

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Polk defeats Clay in “Manifest Destiny” election

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1844

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United States annexes Texas

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1845

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Walker Tariff

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1846

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Independent treasury restored

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1846

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United States settles Oregon dispute with Britain

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1846

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United States and Mexico clash over Texas boundary

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1846

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Kearny takes Santa Fe

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1846

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Frémont conquers California

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1846

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Wilmot Proviso passes House of Representatives

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1846

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Mexican War

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1846-1848

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Battle of Buena Vista

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1847

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Scott takes Mexico City

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1847

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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1848

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Caleb Cushing signs Treaty of Wanghia with China

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1844

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British seize port of San Juan del Norte in Nicaragua

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1848

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War

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1848

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Taylor defeats Cass and Van Buren for presidency

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1848

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California gold rush

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1849

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Fillmore assumes presidency after Taylor’s death

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1850

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Compromise of 1850, including Fugitive Slave Law

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1850

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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty with Britain

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1850

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Australian gold rush

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1851

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Pierce defeats Scott for presidency

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1852

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29
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Gadsden Purchase from Mexico

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1853

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Commodore Perry opens Japan

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1854

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Ostend Manifesto proposes seizure of Cuba

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1854

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Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals Missouri Compromise of 1820

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1854

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Republican Party organized & formed

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1854

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34
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William Walker becomes president of Nicaragua and legalizes slavery

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1856

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Meiji Restoration in Japan

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1868

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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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1852

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Crimean War in Russia

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1853-1856

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38
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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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1854

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39
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Buchanan defeats Frémont and Fillmore for presidency

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1856

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Sumner beaten by Brooks in Senate chamber

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1856

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41
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Brown’s Pottawatomie Massacre

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1856

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42
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Civil war in “bleeding Kansas”

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1856-1861

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43
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Dred Scott decision

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1857

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Lecompton Constitution rejected

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1857

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45
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Panic of 1857

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your mom

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46
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Tariff of 1857

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big butts

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Hinton R. Helper publishes The Impending Crisis of the South

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1857

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48
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Lincoln-Douglas debates

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1858

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Brown raids Harper’s Ferry

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1859

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Lincoln wins four-way race for presidency

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1860

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South Carolina secedes from Union

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1860

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52
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Crittenden Compromise fails

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1860

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53
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Seven seceding states form Confederate States of America

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1861

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Confederate government formed

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1861

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Lincoln takes office (March 4)

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1861

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Fort Sumter fired on (April 12)

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1861

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Four upper South states secede (April-June)

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1861

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58
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Morrilln Tariff Act passed

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1861

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Trent affair

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1861

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Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus

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1861

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Confederacy enacts conscription

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1862

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62
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Homestead Act

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1862

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63
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Alabama raids Northern shipping

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1862-1864

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Union enacts conscription

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1863

65
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New York City draft riots

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1863

66
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National Banking System established

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1863

67
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Napoleon III installs Archduke Maximillian as emperor of Mexico

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1863-1864

68
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Alabama sunk by Union warship

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1864

69
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First Battle of Bull Run

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1861

70
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Grant takes Fort Henry me Fort Donelson

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1862

71
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Battle or Shiloh

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1862

72
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McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign

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1862

73
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Seven Day’s battles

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1862

74
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Second Battle of Bull Run

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1862

75
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Naval battle of Merrimack (Virginia) and Monitor

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1862

76
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Battle of Anteitam

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1862

77
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Preliminary Emancipation Proclomation

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1862

78
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Battle of Fredericksburg

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1862

79
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Northern army seizes New Orleans

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1862

80
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Final Emancipation Proclomation

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1863

81
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Battle of Chancellorsville

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1863

82
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Battle of Gettysburg

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1863

83
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Fall of Vicksburg

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1863

84
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Fall of Port Hudson

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1863

85
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Sherman’s march through Georgia

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1864

86
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Grant’s Wilderness Campaign

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1864

87
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Battle of Cold Harbor

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1864

88
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Lincoln defeats McClellan for presidency

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1864

89
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Hampton Roads Conference

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1865

90
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Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox

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1865

91
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Lincoln assassinated

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1865

92
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13th Amendment ratified

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1865

93
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Reform Bill expands British electorate

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1867

94
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Lincoln announces “10 Percent” Reconstruction plan

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1863

95
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Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill

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1864

96
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Johnson issues Reconstruction proclamation

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1865

97
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Congress refuses to seat Southern congressmen

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1865

98
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Freedmen’s Bureau established

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1865

99
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Southern states pass Black Codes

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1865

100
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Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnson’s veto

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1866

101
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Congress passes 14th amendment

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1866

102
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Johnson-backed candidates lose congressional election

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1866

103
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Ex parte Milligan case

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1866

104
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KKK founded

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1866

105
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Reconstruction Act

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1867

106
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Tenure of Office act

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1867

107
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United States purchases Alaska from Russia

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1867

108
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Johnson impeached and acquitted

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1868

109
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Johnson pardons Confederate leaders

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1868

110
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15th amendment ratified

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1870

111
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Force Acts

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1870-1871

112
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Freedmen’s Bureau ends

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1877

113
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Grant defeats Seymour for presidency

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1868

114
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Fisk and Gould corner gold market

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1869

115
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Tweed scandal in New York

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1871

116
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Crédit Mobilier scandal exposed

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1872

117
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Liberal Republicans break with Grant

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1872

118
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Grant defeats Greeley for presidency

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1872

119
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Panic of 1873

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-5000000000000000000000 B.C.E.

120
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Whiskey Ring scandal

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1875

121
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Civil Rights Act of 1875

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Conrad Birdie

122
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Resumption Act

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1875

123
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Hayes-Tilden election standoff and crisis

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1876

124
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Compromise of 1877

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I did not have sexual relations with that woman

125
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Reconstruction ends

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1877

126
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Railroad strikes paralyze nation

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1877

127
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Garfield defeats Hancock for presidency

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1880

128
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Garfield assassinated; Arthur assumes presidency

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1881

129
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Chinese Exclusion Act

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1882

130
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Civil Rights Cases

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1883

131
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Pendleton Act sets up Civil Service Commission

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1883

132
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Cleveland defeats Blaine for presidency

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1884

133
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Harrison defeats Cleveland for presidency

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1888

134
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Billion-Dollar Congress

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1890

135
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McKinley Tariff Act

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1890

136
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act (repealed 1893)

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1890

137
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Homestead steel strike

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1892

138
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Coeur d’Alene (Idaho) silver miner’s stike

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1892

139
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People’s part candidate James B. Weaver wins 22 electoral votes

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1892

140
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Cleveland defeats Harrison and Weaver to regain presidency

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1892

141
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Depression of 1893 begins

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hail hydra

142
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Republicans regain House of Representatives

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1893

143
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J. P. Morgan’s banking syndicate loans $65 million in gold to federal government

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1895

144
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Plessy v. Ferguson legitimizes “separate but equal” doctrine

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1896

145
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Congress authorizes transcontinental railroad

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1862

146
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National Labor Union organized

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1866

147
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First working transatlantic telegraph cable

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1866

148
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Transcontinental railroad joined near Ogden, Utah

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1869

149
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Knights of Labor organized

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1869

150
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Suez Canal completed

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1869

151
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Standard Oil Company organized

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1870

152
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Bell invents telephone

A

1876

153
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Edison invents electric light

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1879

154
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Haymarket Square bombing

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1866

155
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Wabash case

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1886

156
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American Federation of Labor formed

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1886

157
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Interstate Commerce Acr

A

1887

158
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

A

1890

159
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United States Steel Corporation formed

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1901

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