What to the Salve is the Fourth of July? by Natali Lopez

1850

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China Taiping Rebellion begins

1852

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

1857

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In the Dred Scott decision the U.S Supreme Court rules that people of African descent cannot become U.S. citizens

1859

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John Brown an abolitionist, leads a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

1860

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Abraham Lincoln is elected president

1861

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The Civil War begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, South Carolina

1862

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France Louis Pasteur proposes the modern germ theory of disease

1863

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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

1865

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The Thirteenth Amendment, outlawing slavery, is added to the U.S. Constitution

1867

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The United States buys Alaska from Russia

1869

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Russia Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is published

1872

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Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote in a presidential election

1874

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France Claude Monet gathers impressionist painters for their fisrt exhibit.

1876

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Baseball's National League is founded.

1876

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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.

1877

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The Reconstruction Era ends in the South.

1879

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Thomas Edison invents a practical electric light.

1882

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Europe The Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Italy), is formed.

1882

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The Standard Oil trust becomes first industrial monopoly.

1883

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The Brooklyn Bridge is opened.

1884

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Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

1886

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The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor.

1890

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The U.S. Census Bureau declares the frontier closed.