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Oregon Trail
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Missouri Compromise
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Sante fe Trail
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First African-American NewsPaper
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Harriet Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Stowe rights Uncle Tom's Cabin—a classic that is read even today. -
Invention of the Steel Plow
(Exact dates are apporximated) Steel Plow was invented by John Deere -
Irish Potato Famine
There was a potato famine in Ireland that prompted everyone to immigrate out. -
Telegraph invented
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph and the morse code for it. -
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Mormon Trail
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Beginning of Women's Rights Movement
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End of the potato famine
The Potato Famine was over. -
Massachusetts enacts the first mandatory attendance law.
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Free Public Schools
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End of Women's Rights Movement