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Battle of The Alamo
Santa Anna attacks the Alamo, which backfires, rallying Texans and Southerners -
Expansion westward
Manifest destiny fueled 240,000 people to move west -
Telegraph
The first telagraph message is sent from Washington DC to Baltimore, Maryland -
Texas becomes a state
Congress annexes Texas, but Mexico refused to recognize it. This led to the one-sided Mexican American War -
sewing machine
the sewing machine reolutionized the way clothes were made in homes and in factories -
Gold Rush
Gold is discoverd in Califorina starting the Gold Rush and causing the population to rise from 14,000 to 225,000 -
Free-Soil Party
The Free-Soil Party is formed, which focused on the prevention of slavery expansion -
Compramise of 1850
This divided the U.S. on the 36 degree, 30 N showing where slavery was legal -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published influcencing the civil war -
safety elevatior
Elisha Otis devlopes safty mechanism to prevent elevator cars from falling -
The Sack of Lawrence
proslavery men attack the Free-Soil town of Lawrence, Kansas -
Origin of Species
Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species, arguing that animals evolved by a process of natural selection -
Confederate States of America
in February of 1861 7 seceding states formed the Confederate States of America -
War Begins
Lincoln calls for 75,000 men to fight against the Confederacy after the fall of Fort Sumpter -
Navy comes
The Union outfitted and launched more than 250 warships to block southern ports -
Andaconda Plan
North had captured the Mississippi Valley and the strategic railroad junction at Cattanooga, Tennessee -
Emacipation Proclamation
The proclamation allowed any slave who reached a free state, to be free. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg was the turing point for the Union, in which they started to push back the Confederates -
war ending
by this time the conferderacy was running out of reasourses and were exhausted making it easy for the Union to capture them -
Lee surenders
In a small Virginia town of Appomattox Court House Lee surendered to Grant -
14th Amendment
the 14th amendment was ratified which guaranteed full citizenship status and rights to evry person born in the US -
capitalism encourages entrepreneurs
Horatio Alger published his 1st novel Ragged Dick, or Street Life in New York -
foundation of union
Uriah Smith Stephens founded a labor union called the Knights of Labor -
the long journey
steam ships make journeys across the Atlantic more safe -
great railroad strike
americas greatest railroad strike in history happens -
the light bulb
Thomas Edison patens the electric light bulb. Within 2 years, he installs a street-lighting system in New York City -
immigarants arrive
over 3 quarters of a million immigrants qrrived in America -
leadership changes
Terence V. Powderly took on the leadership of the Knights of Labor. -
steels power
The Brooklyn Bridge was finished in 1883, it was a construction feet during that time -
steam boiler furnace
Affrican American inventor Granville Woods invents an improved stem-powered furnace for running trsins -
time zones come about
in 1884, 27 countries divided the globe into 24 time zones, one for each hour of the day. -
gorwing union
the Knights had grown to have 700,000 men and women nation wide. -
colapse
after a series of failed strikes the Kinghts had largely disappeared -
american steel
By this time America was out producing Great Britain steel manufacturers -
new start
all immigants were processed at Ellis Island -
New act passes
Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act -
urban boom
many rural-to-urban migrants moved to the cities in search of new jobs -
subways
Boston creates first subway system -
telephones grow
There are over one million telaphones in the US, and more that 100,000 miles of telephone wire linked across the land -
2nd subway
New York opens it's first ever subway in the city