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Ohio becomes the seventeenth state
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First continental map of the United States
John Melish (1771-1822) created this map in 1816, and itʼs the first to show the United States as a continental state, which extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. -
Osceola, leader of the Seminole struggle against American troops, dies
Osceola was a war chief; he led the stand against the federal American troops’ campaign, reclaiming his tribe’s territory at the west of the Missisipi River. He died in captivity. -
The failure of the democratic revolutions in Europe caused the increase of the immigration to the United States.
When the 1848 revolution didn’t achieve the wanted reforms in the German confederation, a huge amount of disappointed Germans started to be interested in foreign countries. At that time, the land of United States was cheap, fertile, and abundant, so it was the perfect choice for eager immigrants to establish new settlings and start a new life. -
Walt Whitman published "Leaves of Grass"
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Birth of the oil industry, Titusville, Pennsylvania
In 1859, the Seneca Oil Company, a recently formed company, hired Edwin L. Deake, a retired train operator, to investigate about presumed oil fields near Titusville. This was the starting point for the commercial oil extraction on a large scale. At the beginning of 1860, the west of Pennsylvania was already transformed by the growth of the oil company. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected as the president of USA.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He was elected president of the United States on a platform of opposition to the expansion of slavery to the west of the country, a position that precipitated the secession of the southern states of the Union. -
The southern states separate from the Union
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Bull Run, the first great battle of the American Civil War
The name comes from the run of North Virginia, where the fight took place. Bull Run was the first great battle of the American Civil War. After stopping several attacks ordered by the Union commander to the Confederates, who launched a successful counterattack that forced the Union’s inexperienced and tired troops to go away to Washington. The Union’s inability to win at Bull Run marked the beginning of a long and costly war. -
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
Initially, the civil war between the North and the South was fought by the North to prevent the secession of the South and to preserve the Union. Ending slavery was not a goal. This changed when President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation stating that as of January 1, 1863, slaves in those states or parts of the states still in rebellion would be free. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
One of the most decisive battles of the American Civil War, was fought between 1 and 3 July 1863 near a small city of Pennsylvania. In which the army of the Confederation and that of the Union confronted each other. The battle was a defeat for the Confederation, as it forced Lee, its leader, to interrupt his invasion of the North and withdraw back to Virginia. -
The thirteenth amendment, which put an end to slavery, was adopted
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Alaska was bought from the Empire of the czar, colonized until then by the Russians.
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Completion of the transcontinental railway
On July 1, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln passed the "Pacific Railroad Act" into law. The law gave two companies, Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad, responsibility for completing the transcontinental railroad, allowed them extensive land concessions and the issuance of government bonds for 30 years to finance the venture. -
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
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Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross
During the American Civil War, she organized help for the wounded soldiers and was nicknamed the "battlefield angel". He later worked for the International Red Cross during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871. He established the American branch of the Red Cross in 1881 and served as president of the organization. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
This federal law prohibited the entry of an ethnic group on the grounds that this jeopardized the good order of certain places. -
Universal Exhibition in Chicago
The Chicago World Fair or Universal Exhibition, as it was officially called, was held in 1893 to commemorate Columbus' 400th anniversary of his arrival in America. One of the main attractions was the Chicago Giant Wheel. -
Hispanic-American war; the U.S. acquires Puerto Rico and Guam, occupies Cuba and the Philippines
The United States, during the Spanish-American war, seized the island, which belonged to Spain. Under the peace treaty signed in Paris , the United States formally acquired Puerto Rico, until that time under the control of Spain, as well as Guam and the Philippines. W. Morey.
