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Formation of the Republican Party
The first statewide convention that formed a platform and nominated candidates under the name "Republicans". It declared their new party opposed to the expansion of slavery to new territorys. -
Lincoln Declears the Emancipation of Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was cheifly a declaration of policy,which,it was hoped would serve as an opening wedge in depleting the South's great manpower reserve in slaves and equally important,would enhance thr Union's cause in the eye's of European's,especially the British.In combination with subsequent Union victorie's,it ended all hopes of the Confederacy for recoginition from Britian and Frane. -
Navajo Long Walk
The United States Military forced 11,468 Navajos from Fort Canby Arizona to walk more then 300 miles to Bosque Redondo New Mexico. the weaker people who fell behind the military were either left to die or shot. Several hundred Navajo people died on this march. Even more died at Bosque Redondo, close to 2000. -
Lincoln Assassination
John Wilkes Boothe,a famous actop and Confederate sympathizer,fatally shot President Lincolnin Ford's Theater in WashingtonD.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army effectively ending the American Civil War. -
Union and Central Pacific meet
In Promontory, Utah California's Governor Leland Stanford pounds in a ceremonial gold spike that completes the nations first transcontinental railways. For the first time in American history, railways linked together East and West. The realization of a dream that began two decades earlyer. -
National League Founded (Baseball)
The first offical base ball game took place in Hoboken NJ. The Cincinnati Red Stockings became America's first professional Baseball club. In 1871, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players was established as the sportsfirst "Major League". -
Battle of Little Big Horn
This battle is commonly referred to as Custard's Last Stand. The battle took place between the U.S. Calvary and northern tribe Indians,including the Cheyenne,Sioux,and Arapaho.It took less than an hour for the arrows and bullets of the Indians to wipe out General Custard and his men. -
The French Gift
Made in Paris by the French sculptor Bartholdi, in collaboration with Gustave Eiffel (who was responsible for the steel framework), this towering monument to liberty was a gift from France on the centenary of American independence. Inaugurated in 1886, the sculpture stands at the entrance to New York Harbour and has welcomed millions of immigrants to the United States ever since. -
Militry takes Hawaii
The United States Marines, under the direction of U.S. government minister John L. Stevens, but no authority from the U.S. Congress, intervene in the affairs of the independent Kingdom of Hawaii, which culminated in the overthrow of the government of Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani.
