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Tomas Jefferson is elected as president
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Ohio becomes the seventeenth state.
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First continental map of the United States.
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First book printed in new Mexico.
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The failure of democratic revolutions in Europe triggers an increase in immigration to the United States
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Walt Whitman publishes "Leaves of Grass"
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Birth of the oil industry.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected to serve as president.
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Bull Run, the first great battle of the American Civil War.
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Lincoln issues the proclamation of emancipation.
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The thirteenth amendment, which ends slavery is passed.
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Completion of the transcontinental railway.
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The first national park, Yellowstone, is established.
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Alexander graham bell invents the telephone.
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Clara Barton creates the American Red Cross.
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Chinese exclusion law.
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Spanish-American War; The United States conquers Puerto Rico and Guam, they occupy Cuba and the Philippines.
