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Lowell's First Cotton Mill
Typically built between 1775 and 1930, mills spun cotton which was an important product during the Industrial Revolution -
Louisiana Purchase
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Andrew Jackson's Time
was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend -
Carnegie Founds Steel
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Trail Of Tears
An 800-mile long trail in which over half the Cherokee population died -
Rockefeller founds oil
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Mexican American War
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The Compromise of 1850 Was started but the war still went on
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Bleeding Kansas
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The Bessemer Process Developed
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The Black Codes
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First Oil Well
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John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
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Fort Sumter, 1861, First shots are fired, thus starting the civil war
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First Shots
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Pacific RailWay Act
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Battle of GettysBurg
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Lincoln Issued the Emancipation Proclamation
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Northern Pacific Chartered
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Sherman's March to the Sea
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13th Amendment
This one OFFICIALLY abolished slavery -
SURRENDER!!!!!!!!!!!!
The South Surrenders after their land is captured -
12 Apr 1865. End of the CIvil War.
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The last shot of the Civil War was fired for good.
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14th Amendment
Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling by the Supreme Court (1857) that held that blacks could not be citizens of the United States -
Rails Joined at Promontory Point
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The Gilded Age
the Gilded Age refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century -
15th Amendment
prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). -
Texas and Pacific Chartered
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Telephone invented
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Edison Perfected the LightBulb
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Refrigerator car Developed by Swift
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Sherman AntiTrust Act