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1861
Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as President -
1861
Civil War begins -
1863
Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation -
1863
Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address -
1865
Civil War ends -
1865
Abraham Lincoln is shot and killed by John Wilks Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington -
1866
Frederick Douglas is the 1st U.S. black delegate at a national convention -
1868
Andrew Johnson is impeached -
1869
The First Transcontinental Railroad is completed in Utah -
1870
15th Amendment implemented -
1872
Yellowstone National Park is founded -
1873
The Panic of 1873 Begins -
1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 -
1879
Thomas Edison creates the first commercially viable light bulb -
1881
President Garfield is shot and killed -
1883
Civil Rights case 109 US 3 1883 legalizes the doctrine of segregation -
1886
The Statue of Liberty is given as a gift by France in New York City -
1890
National American Woman Suffrage Association is founded -
1896
Plessy v. Ferguson 163 US 537 1896 affirms the idea of "separate but equal" -
1898
Treaty of Paris ends Spanish-American War -
1903
First World Series -
1908
Ford Model T appears on the market -
1909
US penny is changed to the Abraham Lincoln style -
1912
RMS Titanic sinks -
1917
US enters World War 1 -
1918
World War 1 ends -
1920
19th Amendment implemented -
1924
First Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -
1927
"The Jazz Singer" is the first movie with sound that is released -
1929
The Great Depression begins
