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dates for 12/11
date | world or usa | event(s) |
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1854 | USA | Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
1860 | USA | Abraham Lincoln is elected as president |
1861 | World | Czar Alexander frees surfs in Russia; Italy unifies under King Victor Emmanuel II |
1862 | World | Imperial decrees expels foreigners from Japan |
1863 | USA | Union forces win the Battle of Gettysburg |
1864 | World | First International Workingmen's Association is established, and Karl Marx becomes its leader |
1865 | USA | 13th Amendment abolishes slavery; Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House, ending the Civil War |
1868 | USA | 14th Amendment extends full citizenship to African Americans |
1870 | USA | 15th Amendment guarantees voting rights for African Americans |
1877 | USA | Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president and Reconstruction ends |
1850 | USA | Congress passes the Compromise of 1850 |