1860's

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Transcontinental Railroad
Homestead Act
Election of 1860
Grange & Oliver Hudson Kelley
Chisholm Trail & cattle drives
Transatlantic Cable
Alaskan Purchase
Midway Island Annexation

National Women's Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Knights of Labor
Cornelius Vanderbilt
George Westinghouse
George Pullman
Reconstruction Act
Slave Amendments (13th, 14th & 15th)
Civil Rights Act
Klu Klux Klan
Sharecroppers
Impeachment of 1868
Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Scalawag
Carpetbagger
Black Codes
Chivington Massacre