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Ending Surfdom
The most prominent reason for migration was the abolition of serfdom in 1860, thus giving the Lithuanian peasants a sense of freedom they had never before experienced. -
Union Stock Yards
The opening day for the Union Stock Yards in Chicago was on Christmas day in 1865. -
Migration
Lithuanian immigration to the United States began in the late 1860s, after the Civil War. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an estimated 300,000 Lithuanians journeyed to America Read more: Lithuanian Americans - History, Significant immigration waves, Settlement patterns, Interactions with settled americans, Acculturation and assimilation, Cuisine http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Le-Pa/Lithuanian-Americans.html#ixzz0htEeNSak -
Famine
harsh famine in the late 1860's encouraged Lithuanian peasants to move around in search of money and food. -
The Jungle Published
The novel was first published in serial form in 1905. "After five rejections", its first edition as a novel was published by Doubleday, Page & Company on February 28, 1906, and it became an immediate bestseller -
Meat Instpection Act
Signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 30, 1906, the legislation that outlawed adulterated and misbranded food and drugs. -
Fire
The Chicago Union Stock Yards Fire started on December 22, 1910, destroying $400,000 of property and killing twenty-one firemen. -
Idependance
Lithuanian independence in 1918, halted immigration to the United States. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair died in 1968 at age 90. -
The Union Stock Yards
The Yards closed at midnight on Friday, July 30, 1971 after several decades of decline during the decentralization of the meat packing industry
