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Thomas Walker discovers and names the Cumberland Gap.
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Daniel Boone cuts the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky.
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Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the Union but even though Ministers led the fight against slavery, it was allowed in its constitution.
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Under pressure from white settlers, Chichasaw indians land in the Jackson Purchase.
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7,700 men were killed or wounded in Pennyville whitch was the last major battle of the Cival War in Kentucky.
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The first Kentucky derby drew 10,000 people to Churchhill Downs in Louisville and see Oliver Lewis Aristides to victory.
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Tobacco farmers who refused to join a movement to demand fair prices were attacked and their crops were burned.
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When the huge Kentucky Dam was completed , it helped bring electricity to rural Kentucky areas.
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The Kentucky Education Reform Act incresed funding of schools resulting in smaller class sizes and more personal attention from teachers.
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A coal waste spill polluted eastern Kentucky rivers and streams.
