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Recent Event Highlights: Spanish-American War, Chicago World's Fair, Southern tracks join the Union in national standard, American Red Cross established, South Carolina secedes, Mexican-American War, and 28 more...

Created by emilywd on Mar 9, 2011

Last updated: 03/10/11 at 09:37 AM

• St. Louis's World's Fair
  1904

• Roosevelt Corollary
  1904

• First airplane flight
  1903

• United Mine Workers Strike
  1902

• Spanish-American War
  1898

• Pullman Strike
  1894

• Chicago World's Fair
  1893

• Colorado gives women the right to vote locally
  1893

• Anti-Trust Laws
  1890

• Dawes Severalty Act
  1887

• Haymarket Massacre
  1886

• Southern tracks join the Union in national standard
  1886

• Standard Time Zones adopted
  1883

• American Red Cross established
  1881

• Light Bulb invented
  1879

• Dumbell Tenement Plan houses immigrants
  1878

• Nation celebrates 100 years of the Union
  1876

• Telephone invented
  1876

• Labor Strikes begin
  1870

• Trans-Continental Railroad completed
  1869

• Lincoln assassinated
  1865

• 13th Ammendment
  1865

• Battle of Gettysburg
  1863

• South Carolina secedes
  1860

• Dred Scott decision
  1857

• Republican Party established
  1854

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
  1854

• Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
  1852

• Compromise of 1850
  1850

• Gold Rush
  1849

• Oil drilling discovered
  1848

• Mexican-American War
  Jul 1, 1846

• Immigration increases
  1845

• First message sent on telegraph
  1844

• Destruction of National Bank
  1836

• Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America published
  1835

• Tariff of 1832 (South Carolina nullification)
  1832

• Nullification Act
  1830

• Indian Removal Act
  1830

• Baltimore and Ohio Railroad construction begins
  1828

• South Carolina Exposition and Protests published
  1828

• Eerie Canal
  1825

• Monroe Doctrine
  1823

• Missouri Compromise
  1821