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Socialism
A movement called socialism spread throughout Europe. -
Telegraph
Samuel Morse's telegraph sends the first meggae to Washington,D.C. -
Free Soil
Th free soild Party was formed by opponents of slavery and hey wanted to prevent the expansion of slavery into western territories. -
California, Free?
california tries to enter the Union as a free state threatemimg the balance of free and slave states. They decided that California would be free but all of the other land acquired from Mexico would be put to a popular vote, undoing the Missouri Compromise. -
Kansa-Nebraska Act
The congress had to pass an act splitting up Nebraska into Kansa and Nebraska and letting each of them vote weather to be free or slave states.People from both sides flocked to these states to try and sway the vote. -
Dred Scott
An enslaved african American sued for his freeedom because he lived in a free state for 4 years still as a slave. Scott lost but this caused an uproar of people seeing the injust of the justic system. -
Oil Well
Edwin Drake drilled the very first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania. -
Charles Darwin
charles darwin ppublished "On the Origin of Species" which argued for natural slection. -
Presidential Election
With Kansa undecided of being free or slave, and the Dred Scott trials still fresh in everyones minds, this election was gping to be a powerful one. The four canidates running are Stephen Douglas, John Breckinridge, John Bell, and Abraham Lincoln. -
Licoln wins
Lincoln wins the elcetion and now there is an uproar in the south. First, South Carolina secedes and then six other states followed, because of the win of Licoln. -
South Carolina
Right after the election of 1860 South Carolina was secsding from the Union. -
Civil War
From 1861 to 1865, the civil war was going on, which was against the Union, North, and the Confederatacy, South. -
President Lncoln
A few days after Fort Sumter, Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to fight against the Confederacy. -
Confederacy
The seven seceding states formed the Confederate States of America. They made their consitiution but prohibited imports of slavery but could still have salves, this won over Britian and France. -
War measures
Lincoln decides that ending slavery was a war measure. He then issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in the rebeling states. -
Gettysberg
Union troops beat Lee in the Battle of Gettysberg, this is a huge turning point in the war, and they desroy a thrid of Lee's troops. -
Confederate Surrendered
The confederacy was exhausted, so when the Union troops captured the Confederat capital Lee surrendered. -
Assassination
Lincoln was assassinated at a movie theater with his wife. Adrew Johnson became president. -
13th Amendment
Johnson got the 13th amendment passed whiched ended slavery. -
14th Amendment
The 14th amendment gave everyone born in the US citizenship. -
Labor Union
Uriah Smith Stephens founded a labor union called "The Knights of Labor" -
Number of corparations
Number of corporations in America increased dramaticly, they were an important part of industrial capitolism, or the economic free-market system centered around industries. -
Yellowstone
Yellowstone national park was created by the government because they were concerned about the enviroment. -
Railroad Strikes
Cut wages forced railroad workers to go on strike thus setting the scene for violent strkes to come. -
Safety Elevator
Elisha Otis deveolops a safety mechanism to prevent elevators from falling. -
Railroads
Three transcontinetal railroad lines, this helped transport food to large areas of the continent. -
AFL
Samual Gompers formed the American Federation of Labor. -
ICC
Untited State Senate created the Interstate Commerce Commission to over see railroad operations. -
Homestead Strike
Because of the economic depresssiong workers pay was cut causing a standeoff between the striking workers and the owners, the strikers ended up losing. -
Pullman Strike
Pullman cut wages and forced workers to live in town near by, workers sent a note to negotiate prices and Pullman reasponed by firing three workers and shutting down a plant. -
Matthew Josephson
(Born 1899-1978) was the politcal and economical historian who coined the phrase "robber barons"