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DATES 41-60. Date- #41 1857. 1857 - Dred Scott v. Sanford : Landmark Supreme Court decision holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore , that slaves are not citizens. Date- # 42 1859. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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DATES 41-60
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DATE- #41 18571857- Dred Scott v. Sanford: Landmark Supreme
Court decision holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens.
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DATE- #42 18591859- Abolitionist John Brown and 21 followers
capture federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va. (now W. Va.), in an attempt to spark a slave revolt (Oct. 16).
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DATE- #43 18601860- South Carolina secedes from the Union
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DATE- #44 18611861- Confederates attack Ft. Sumter in
Charleston, S.C., marking the start of the Civil War.
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DATE- #45 18631863- Emancipation Proclamation is issued, freeing
slaves in the Confederate states
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DATE- #46 18651865- Lincoln is assassinated (April 14) by John
Wilkes Booth in Washington, DC.
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DATE- #47 18671867 -U.S. acquires Alaska from Russia for the sum
of $7.2 million
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DATE- #48 18691869- Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads are
joined at Promontory, Utah, creating first transcontinental railroad
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DATE- #49 18701870- Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution is
ratified, giving blacks the right to vote
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DATE- #50 18711871- Chicago fire kills 300 and leaves 90,000
people homeless
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DATE- #51 18761876- Lt. Col. George A. Custer's regiment is wiped
out by Sioux Indians under Sitting Bull at the Little Big Horn River, Mont.
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DATE- #52 18861886 -Statue of Liberty is dedicated (Oct. 28).
American Federation of Labor is organized
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DATE- #53 18901890- Last major battle of the Indian Wars occurs at
Wounded Knee in South Dakota the frontier is closed
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DATE- #54 18961896- Plessy v. Ferguson: Landmark Supreme Court
decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws in the South
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DATE- #55 18981898- Spanish-American War: USS Maine is blown
up in Havana harbor. U.S. declares war on Spain (Spain gives up control of Cuba, which becomes an independent republic, and cedes Puerto Rico, Guam, and (for $20 million) the Philippines to the U.S.
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DATE- #56 19031903- U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone (treaty
signed Nov. 17). Wright brothers make the first controlled, sustained flight in heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
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DATE- #57 19141914- World War I: begins in 1914 U.S. enters World
War I in 1917. War ends in 1919
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DATE- #58 19161916- Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first
woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
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DATE- #59 19181918- Worldwide influenza epidemic strikes; by
1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S., 500,000 perish.
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DATE- #60 19191919- Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is
ratified, granting women the right to vote