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Romantic Era
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Thomas Jefferson is President
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Louisiana Purchase
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James Madison is President
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Chopin Born
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Liszt Born
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War of 1812
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Star Spangled Banner is Written
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Andrew Jackson is President
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Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 -
Brahms Born
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Morse Code Invented
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Artist Claude Monet born
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Communist Manifesto
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Artist Vincent van Gogh born
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Abraham Lincoln is President
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American Civil War
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Transcontinental Railroad
By connecting the existing eastern U.S. rail networks to the west coast, the Transcontinental Railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad") became the first continuous railroad line across the United States -
Abolition of Slavery in America
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Alexander Graham Bell invents Telephone
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Thomas Edison invents electric light
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Statue of Liberty is Dedicated
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Eiffel tower Built in Paris
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Spanish American War
The Spanish-American War of 1898 ended Spain's colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power.