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Lincoln Elected
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South Carolina seceded from Union
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Confedrate States of America formed
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Fall of Fort Sumter, South Carolina
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of Shiloh
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Homestead Act & Morrill Land Grant Act passed
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Battle of Antietam
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Battle of Fredericksburg
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclomation
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West Virginia became a state
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Vicksburg surrendered
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Sherman's "March to the Sea"
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Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
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Lincoln assassinated
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Thirteenth Amendment ratified
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Ku Klux Klan formed
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William H. Sylvis founded the national Labor Union
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National Granfe formed
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Sioux Wars
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Military Reconstruction Act passed
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U.S. purchased Alaska
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Andrew Johnson impeached but not convicted
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Fourteenth Amendment Ratified
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Transcontinental railroad completed
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Knights of Labor founded
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John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil
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New York opened elevated railroads
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Fifteenth Amendment ratified
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Economic Depression
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Carnegie Steel founded
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Barbed Wire invented
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Boss Tweed convicted of corruption
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Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) founded
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Whiskey Ring Scandal
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
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Battle of Little Big Horn
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Railroad workers strike nationwide
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Compromise of 1877 made Rutherbord B. Hayes President
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Thomas A. Edison invented the electric lightbulb
