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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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Short-Lived Pony Express runs from Missouri to California
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Emily Dickinon wrote several 100 poems including the loaded gun
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Emily Dickinson
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Civil War Ends
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Lincoln Assasinated
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Thirteenth Amendment Ratified
13th Amendment: prohibited slavery -
Mark Twain's Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavera's County
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14th Amendment
Guaranteed Citizenship to those born in the United States but excluded Natives -
First Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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Susan B. Anthony
She was elected President of American Equall Rights Association -
15th Amendment Ratified
Gvae the right to African American Men to vote -
Indian Appropiation
This ends the treaties with the tribes as sovereign nations. -
Economic Panic Begins
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Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone
provides faster communication -
Jim Crow Laws begin
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Daisy Miller by Henry James
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Female lawyers
Female lawyers permitted to argue before the supreme court -
Financial depression Ends
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Thomas Edison invents the electric lightbulb
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Mssive Immigration From Europe
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Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twaine
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Tailors' strike in New York City
brings attention to sweatshops -
Daws Act
Permits the president to divide tribally owned lands into individual allotments to be held in trust for 25 years, with surplus lands to be sold to non Indians. This led to Natives losing 90 million acres of land -
Ellis Island Immigration Station Opens
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No more "free" or unoccupied land declared
by U.S. Bureau of the Census. Sitting Bull was also killed this year. -
The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins
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Maggie: A girl from the streets by Stephen Crane
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Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin
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Ghost Dance Songs by James Mooney
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Sister Carrie by Theodore Drieser
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Booker T Washigton : Up From Slavery
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Dawes Act repealed
