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| Abraham Lincoln is nominated president |
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| The beginning of the Civil War |
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| Italians establish a united kingdom |
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| Colorado joined the united states in 1876 |
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| North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, and Montana became states in 1889 |
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| Wyoming and Idaho were admitted to the Union in 1890 |
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| The nation's railroad network expanded rapidly between 1865 and 1890 |
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| Roughing it is the personal account of Mark Twain's travels to the Nevade Territory in 1861 |
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| In 1867 the town of Abilene was founded at the end of the Kansas Pacific Railroad and that was when the trail really started |
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| By 1865, the Missouri Pacific Railroad reached Kansas City |
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| Thousands of Africans also migrated from the Southern States to Kansas in the late 1870's |
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| The end of Reconstruction in 1877 had meant end of fedral protection for African Americans |
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| On May 10, 1869, Construction was completed |
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| By 1865, the Missouri Pacfic railroad reached Kansas City |
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| 1870 made the land better suited farming |
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| On the morning of April 22, 1889 the official opening day more than 10,000 people lined up |
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| Starting in 1872, hunters targeted buffalo to sell the hides back east |
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| Trouble also broke out in the southwest |
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| In 1892 the populists nominated James B. Weaver of Iowa as its presidential candidate |
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| Triple Alliance forms among Germany Austria, Italy |
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| Bell patents the telephone |
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| Newspaper engraving of Chicago's Haymarket Riot May 4, 1886 |
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| Newspaper compositors:36 cents |
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| Machine woodworkers: 25 cents |
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| Construction workers: 17 cents |
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| Butter:22 cents per pound |
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| Rib roast:13 cents per pound |
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| Postage: 2 cents per ounce |
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| Cowhands herd cattle from Texas on long drives |
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| Ranching spreads from Texas to the Northern Plains |
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| Electricity lights up Luna park on coney Island in New York, 1890 |
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| The united states is swallowed by the Giant of Monopoly ca.1890 |
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| Carnegie steel company plant in Home steady pennsylvania |
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| Newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island |
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| Overall height, base to tip of torch |
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| Grand opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883 |
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| Signers of the Tready of Fort Laramie, May 1868 |
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| Farm workers on a combine harvestar and thresher, 1903 |
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| The union pacific railroad depot at La Grande, Orgon, c.1870 |
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| Workers repair train wheels in 1904 |
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| People traveled west to Colorado in search of gold and silver |
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| Railroad companies hired buffalo hunters to provide their workers with fresh meat |
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