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John O’Sullivan coins phrase “Manifest Destiny”

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James K. Polk

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Manifest Destiny

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James K. Polk

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Frederick Douglass

“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”

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James K. Polk

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Western Expansion

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James K. Polk

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Mass Irish immigration due to famine

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James K. Polk

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Mexico rejects John Slidell’s mission

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James K. Polk

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Oregon territory “54, 40 or fight” compromise for the 49th parallel

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James K. Polk

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Wilmont Proviso

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James K. Polk

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Mexican War

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James K. Polk

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Bear Flag Republic in California

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James K. Polk

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Lewis Cass’s principle of “Popular Sovereignty”

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James K. Polk

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Wisconsin and Iowa admitted as free states

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James K. Polk

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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James K. Polk

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Anti-Slavery Whigs & Democrats from Free Soil Party organized

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James K. Polk

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Discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in California

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James K. Polk

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Seneca Falls Convention

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James K. Polk

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Gold Rush

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Zachary Taylor

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Henry David Thoreau

“Civil Disobedience”

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Zachary Taylor

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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

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Zachary Taylor

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Introduction of the Compromise of 1850 -personally opposed compromise

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Zachary Taylor

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Nashville Convention

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Zachary Taylor

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Omnibus Bill -Henry Clay

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Zachary Taylor

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Know-Nothing Party Emerges

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Millard Fillmore

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Compromise of 1850

  • California enters Union as a free state
  • New Mexico and Utah territories organized based on popular sovereignty
  • No slave trade in Washington D. C.
  • New Mexico/Texas border dispute settled in favor of New Mexico
  • Texas given $10 million to compromise for border dispute with New Mexico
  • Strict Fugitive Slave Law
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Millard Fillmore

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Herman Melville

“Moby Dick”

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Millard Fillmore

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

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Millard Fillmore

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Cumberland Road completed

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Millard Fillmore

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Underground Railroad

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Franklin Pierce

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Japan opened to World Trade by Commodore Matthew Perry

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Franklin Pierce

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Gadsden Purchase

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Franklin Pierce

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Ostend Manifesto

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Franklin Pierce

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Henry David Thoreau

“Walden”

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Franklin Pierce

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Know-Nothing Party

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Franklin Pierce

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Republican Party formed

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Franklin Pierce

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Franklin Pierce

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Border Ruffians

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Franklin Pierce

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Walt Whitman

“Leaves of Grass”

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Franklin Pierce

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Topeka Constitution

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Franklin Pierce

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Pottawatomie Massacre

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Franklin Pierce

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“Sack” of Lawrence

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Franklin Pierce

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Bleeding Kansas

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Franklin Pierce

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Preston Brooks/Charles Sumner clash

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Franklin Pierce

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Dred Scott

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James Buchanan

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Panic of 1857

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James Buchanan

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Hinton Helper

“Impending Crisis in the South”

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James Buchanan

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Lecompton Constitution

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James Buchanan

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First transatlantic cable (1858); permanent cable (1866)

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James Buchanan

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Lincoln-Douglass Debates

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James Buchanan

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Harper’s Ferry

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James Buchanan

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Comstock Lode

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James Buchanan

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Charles Darwin

“On the Origin of Species”

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James Buchanan

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First oil well drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvania

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James Buchanan

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South Carolina secession

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James Buchanan

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Pony Express established

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James Buchanan

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Montgomery Convention; Confederate States of America

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James Buchanan

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Crittenden Compromise fails

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James Buchanan

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Fort Sumter

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Abraham Lincoln

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Trent Affair

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Abraham Lincoln

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U. S. Sanitary Commission created

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Abraham Lincoln

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Civil War

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Abraham Lincoln

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Monitor and Merrimac

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Abraham Lincoln

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Homestead Act

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Abraham Lincoln

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Morrill Land Grant Act

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Abraham Lincoln

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Pacific Railways Act

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Abraham Lincoln

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Antietam

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Abraham Lincoln

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Abraham Lincoln

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Habeus Corpus suspended nationwide

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Abraham Lincoln

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National Bank Act

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Abraham Lincoln

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Enrollment Act— Draft

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Abraham Lincoln

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Vicksburg

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Abraham Lincoln

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Gettysburg

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Abraham Lincoln

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New York Draft Riots

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Abraham Lincoln

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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction “10% Plan”

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Abraham Lincoln

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Wade Davis Bill (pocket veto)

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Abraham Lincoln

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Sherman’s March

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Abraham Lincoln

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Sand Creek Massacre

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Abraham Lincoln

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Robert E. Lee Surrenders at the Appomattox Court House

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Abraham Lincoln

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Assassinated April 14, 1865- John Wilkes Booth

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Abraham Lincoln

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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.

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Andrew Johnson

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Presidential Reconstruction Completed.

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Andrew Johnson

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13th Amendment

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Andrew Johnson

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Freedman Bureau

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Andrew Johnson

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Black Codes implemented in the South.

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Andrew Johnson

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“Ex Parte Milligan”

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Andrew Johnson

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National Labor Union formed.

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Andrew Johnson

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Civil Rights Act

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Andrew Johnson

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KKK formed.

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Andrew Johnson

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Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction

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Andrew Johnson

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Tenure of Office Act

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Andrew Johnson

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Seward’s Folly (Alaska)

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Andrew Johnson

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Cattle drives begin

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Andrew Johnson

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Grange

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Andrew Johnson

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Smaller Indian reservations adopted.

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Andrew Johnson

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Fort Laramie Treaty

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Andrew Johnson

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14th Amendment

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Andrew Johnson

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Knights of Labor founded.

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Andrew Johnson

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Impeachment Trial

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Andrew Johnson

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Transcontinental Railroad completed.

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Andrew Johnson

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Reconstruction

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Black Friday- Stock Market Crash.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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15th Amendment

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Amnesty Act for ex-Confederates.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Enforcement Acts

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Yellowstone National Park

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Anthony Comstock, Society for the Suppression of Vice

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Panic of 1873 (Depression lasts until 1879)

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Comstock Law

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Mark Twain, “Gilded Age”

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Ulysses S. Grant

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“Slaughterhouse Cases”

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Political Scandals

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Fisk and Gould corner the gold market.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Credit Mobilier

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Whiskey Ring

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Belknap Scandal (Secretary of War accepted bribes from Indian agents)

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Gold discovered in the Black Hills, South Dakota.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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WCTU, Women Christian Temperance Union

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Civil Rights Act

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Specie Resumption Act

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Battle of Little Bighorn.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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National League of Baseball organized.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Telephone patented, Alexander Graham Bell

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Compromise of 1877

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Phonograph, Thomas Edison

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Railroad strike

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Compromise of 1877 (Wormley Agreement)

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Mann v. Illinois

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Bland- Allison Act

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Hebert George, “Progress and Poverty”

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Incandescent Lamp

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Salvation Army in U.S.

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Assassinated 1881

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James A. Garfield

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American Red Cross founded.

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James A. Garfield

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Helen Hunt Jackson, “A Century of Dishonor”

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James A. Garfield

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Theodore Roosevelt, “Winning of the West”

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James A. Garfield

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Chester Arthur

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Standard Oil Trust

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Chester Arthur

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First electric power station opens in New York City.

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Chester Arthur

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Tariff Act of 1883

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Chester Arthur

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Pendleton Civil Service Act

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Chester Arthur

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Lester Frank Ward, “Dynamic Sociology”

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Chester Arthur

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Mark Twain, “Huck Finn”

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Chester Arthur

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NCFA, National Colored Farmers Alliance

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Grover Cleveland

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Reduced protective tariffs and cut pensions for veterans.

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Grover Cleveland

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Ghost Dance

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Grover Cleveland

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Skyscraper, Chicago

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Grover Cleveland

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American Federation of Labor created (AFL)

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Grover Cleveland

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Haymarket Riot

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Grover Cleveland

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Dedication of the Statue of Liberty

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Grover Cleveland

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Wabash v. Illinois

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Grover Cleveland

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Dawes Act

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Grover Cleveland

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Interstate Commerce Act (Commission) created

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Grover Cleveland

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Edward Bellamy, “Looking Backward”

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Grover Cleveland

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