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The Pacific Railway
The first train began to run in America along the east coast. -
Telegraph invention
Invented by Samuel F. B. Morse, feat Alfred Vail, inspired by Claude Chappe. -
The perfection of Morse' code
Morse perfected his sending and receiving code and organized a corporation, making Vail and Gale his partners . -
Railway extentions
the nation's railway networks extended throughout the East, South, and Midwest, -
the first message in Morse
the first message is sent using morse code to a colleague of Mr Morse who was in Baltimore. -
gold rush starts
The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848. -
Gold mining peaks
Though gold mining continued throughout the 1850s, it had finally reached its peak by 1852. -
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Civil War
After the first Confederate’s attack, the president Abraham Lincoln said at the population to take their arms. But In front of them, there are the Union and they had a comfortable superiority: 22 millions of inhabitants against 9 million in the South (with 3,7 millions of black slaves), a military’s budget and a strength two times more important, an industrial equipment and a grid of transport elevated, and finally an important and powerful navy. During the 3rd april 1865 while the Confederate’ -
The pacific railway act
Lincoln signed the pacific railway act. -
Gettysburg’s fight
It’s the Gettysburg’s fight, during this 3 days the Union lost 23.000 officers (3.000 peoples killed, 15.000 wounded persons, 5.000 persons who were catching), so that’s one quarter of the strength. The Confederate lost 31.000 officers (5.000 peoples killed, 13.000 wounded persons, 6.000 persons who were catching), so that’s one third of them strenght. It was the most bloody fight in the history. -
The meeting
Locomotives from the two railroads met nose-to-nose to signal the joining of the two lines. -
Battle of the little Bighorn
The Indian war lasted from pratically one century when the Little Bighorn’s fight started. At the down of this day, the generalissimo George Armstrong Custer fell in an ambush against 2500 sioux. The 285 officers of the american military group were slaughtered by Indians near the Little Bighorn River, in the state of Montana. This part of the history, is a real proof of the cruelty of the Indian wars and thank’s to that american people will have a new point of view about death, not about the dea
