Presidential Chronology- Polk-Lincoln Flashcards
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John O’Sullivan coins phrase “Manifest Destiny”
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James K. Polk
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Manifest Destiny
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James K. Polk
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Frederick Douglass
“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”
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James K. Polk
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Western Expansion
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James K. Polk
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Mass Irish immigration due to famine
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James K. Polk
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Mexico rejects John Slidell’s mission
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James K. Polk
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Oregon territory “54, 40 or fight” compromise for the 49th parallel
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James K. Polk
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Wilmont Proviso
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James K. Polk
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Mexican War
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James K. Polk
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Bear Flag Republic in California
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James K. Polk
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Lewis Cass’s principle of “Popular Sovereignty”
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James K. Polk
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Wisconsin and Iowa admitted as free states
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James K. Polk
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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James K. Polk
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Anti-Slavery Whigs & Democrats from Free Soil Party organized
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James K. Polk
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Discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in California
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James K. Polk
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Seneca Falls Convention
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James K. Polk
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Gold Rush
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Zachary Taylor
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Henry David Thoreau
“Civil Disobedience”
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Zachary Taylor
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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
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Zachary Taylor
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Introduction of the Compromise of 1850 -personally opposed compromise
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Zachary Taylor
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Nashville Convention
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Zachary Taylor
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Omnibus Bill -Henry Clay
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Zachary Taylor
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Know-Nothing Party Emerges
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Millard Fillmore
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Compromise of 1850
- California enters Union as a free state
- New Mexico and Utah territories organized based on popular sovereignty
- No slave trade in Washington D. C.
- New Mexico/Texas border dispute settled in favor of New Mexico
- Texas given $10 million to compromise for border dispute with New Mexico
- Strict Fugitive Slave Law
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Millard Fillmore
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Herman Melville
| "Moby Dick"
Millard Fillmore
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's
| "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Millard Fillmore
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Cumberland Road completed
Millard Fillmore
27
Underground Railroad
Franklin Pierce
28
Japan opened to World Trade by Commodore Matthew Perry
Franklin Pierce
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Gadsden Purchase
Franklin Pierce
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Ostend Manifesto
Franklin Pierce
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Henry David Thoreau
| "Walden"
Franklin Pierce
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Know-Nothing Party
Franklin Pierce
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Republican Party formed
Franklin Pierce
34
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Franklin Pierce
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Border Ruffians
Franklin Pierce
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Walt Whitman
| "Leaves of Grass"
Franklin Pierce
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Topeka Constitution
Franklin Pierce
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Pottawatomie Massacre
Franklin Pierce
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"Sack" of Lawrence
Franklin Pierce
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Bleeding Kansas
Franklin Pierce
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Preston Brooks/Charles Sumner clash
Franklin Pierce
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Dred Scott
James Buchanan
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Panic of 1857
James Buchanan
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Hinton Helper
| "Impending Crisis in the South"
James Buchanan
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Lecompton Constitution
James Buchanan
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First transatlantic cable (1858); permanent cable (1866)
James Buchanan
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Lincoln-Douglass Debates
James Buchanan
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Harper's Ferry
James Buchanan
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Comstock Lode
James Buchanan
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Charles Darwin
| "On the Origin of Species"
James Buchanan
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First oil well drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvania
James Buchanan
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South Carolina secession
James Buchanan
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Pony Express established
James Buchanan
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Montgomery Convention; Confederate States of America
James Buchanan
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Crittenden Compromise fails
James Buchanan
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Fort Sumter
Abraham Lincoln
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Trent Affair
Abraham Lincoln
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U. S. Sanitary Commission created
Abraham Lincoln
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Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
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Monitor and Merrimac
Abraham Lincoln
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Homestead Act
Abraham Lincoln
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Morrill Land Grant Act
Abraham Lincoln
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Pacific Railways Act
Abraham Lincoln
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Antietam
Abraham Lincoln
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Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
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Habeus Corpus suspended nationwide
Abraham Lincoln
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National Bank Act
Abraham Lincoln
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Enrollment Act— Draft
Abraham Lincoln
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Vicksburg
Abraham Lincoln
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Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln
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New York Draft Riots
Abraham Lincoln
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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction "10% Plan"
Abraham Lincoln
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Wade Davis Bill (pocket veto)
Abraham Lincoln
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Sherman's March
Abraham Lincoln
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Sand Creek Massacre
Abraham Lincoln
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Robert E. Lee Surrenders at the Appomattox Court House
Abraham Lincoln
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Assassinated April 14, 1865- John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
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Presidential Reconstruction Completed.
Andrew Johnson
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13th Amendment
Andrew Johnson
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Freedman Bureau
Andrew Johnson
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Black Codes implemented in the South.
Andrew Johnson
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"Ex Parte Milligan"
Andrew Johnson
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National Labor Union formed.
Andrew Johnson
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Civil Rights Act
Andrew Johnson
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KKK formed.
Andrew Johnson
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Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
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Tenure of Office Act
Andrew Johnson
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Seward's Folly (Alaska)
Andrew Johnson
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Cattle drives begin
Andrew Johnson
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Grange
Andrew Johnson
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Smaller Indian reservations adopted.
Andrew Johnson
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Fort Laramie Treaty
Andrew Johnson
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14th Amendment
Andrew Johnson
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Knights of Labor founded.
Andrew Johnson
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Impeachment Trial
Andrew Johnson
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Transcontinental Railroad completed.
Andrew Johnson
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Reconstruction
Ulysses S. Grant
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Black Friday- Stock Market Crash.
Ulysses S. Grant
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15th Amendment
Ulysses S. Grant
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Amnesty Act for ex-Confederates.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Enforcement Acts
Ulysses S. Grant
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Yellowstone National Park
Ulysses S. Grant
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Anthony Comstock, Society for the Suppression of Vice
Ulysses S. Grant
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Panic of 1873 (Depression lasts until 1879)
Ulysses S. Grant
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Comstock Law
Ulysses S. Grant
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Mark Twain, "Gilded Age"
Ulysses S. Grant
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"Slaughterhouse Cases"
Ulysses S. Grant
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Political Scandals
Ulysses S. Grant
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Fisk and Gould corner the gold market.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Credit Mobilier
Ulysses S. Grant
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Whiskey Ring
Ulysses S. Grant
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Belknap Scandal (Secretary of War accepted bribes from Indian agents)
Ulysses S. Grant
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Gold discovered in the Black Hills, South Dakota.
Ulysses S. Grant
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WCTU, Women Christian Temperance Union
Ulysses S. Grant
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Civil Rights Act
Ulysses S. Grant
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Specie Resumption Act
Ulysses S. Grant
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Battle of Little Bighorn.
Ulysses S. Grant
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National League of Baseball organized.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Telephone patented, Alexander Graham Bell
Ulysses S. Grant
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Compromise of 1877
Ulysses S. Grant
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Phonograph, Thomas Edison
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Railroad strike
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Compromise of 1877 (Wormley Agreement)
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Mann v. Illinois
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Bland- Allison Act
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Hebert George, "Progress and Poverty"
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Incandescent Lamp
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Salvation Army in U.S.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Assassinated 1881
James A. Garfield
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American Red Cross founded.
James A. Garfield
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Helen Hunt Jackson, "A Century of Dishonor"
James A. Garfield
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Theodore Roosevelt, "Winning of the West"
James A. Garfield
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Chester Arthur
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Standard Oil Trust
Chester Arthur
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First electric power station opens in New York City.
Chester Arthur
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Tariff Act of 1883
Chester Arthur
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
Chester Arthur
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Lester Frank Ward, "Dynamic Sociology"
Chester Arthur
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Mark Twain, "Huck Finn"
Chester Arthur
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NCFA, National Colored Farmers Alliance
Grover Cleveland
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Reduced protective tariffs and cut pensions for veterans.
Grover Cleveland
143
Ghost Dance
Grover Cleveland
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Skyscraper, Chicago
Grover Cleveland
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American Federation of Labor created (AFL)
Grover Cleveland
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Haymarket Riot
Grover Cleveland
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Dedication of the Statue of Liberty
Grover Cleveland
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Wabash v. Illinois
Grover Cleveland
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Dawes Act
Grover Cleveland
150
Interstate Commerce Act (Commission) created
Grover Cleveland
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Edward Bellamy, "Looking Backward"
Grover Cleveland
