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1845 potato crop fails in Ireland, causing famine
1832 English Parliament passes 'Reform Bill' - allowing almost everyone to vote
Victoria Queen of England from 1837 to 1901
Alfred Dreyfus Jewish Frenchman, wrongly accused; his conviction revealed anti-Semitic qualities in French society
Australia started in 1788 as a penal colony
penal colony area to which convicts are sent to serve their sentences
1921 southern Ireland wins the right to 'home rule'
Florida Spain gives this to the United States in 1819
Texas declares itself to be independent of Mexico in 1836
Mexico was angry that Texas joined the United States in 1845
war between United States and Mexico, from 1846 to 1848
Republican Party formed to abolish slavery
Democratic Party wanted to keep slavery
Abraham Lincoln even as a young boy, wanted to abolish slavery
Ulysses S. Grant military genius who wins the Civil War for the North; later defends civil rights for blacks in the South by stopping KKK
Civil War from 1861 to 1865
railroads connect east coast to west coast in the late 1860's
telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876
airplane first flown by Wilbur and Orville Wright in 1903
KKK organization to terrorize blacks, and terrorize northern Republicans who came to the South to build equality and civil rights
Gregor Mendel Austrian Roman-Catholic scientist develops modern genetics
free markets created wealth for lower, middle, and upper class people in the United States
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