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Lincoln elected president, his stand of the slavery issue, seven states form the Confederacy. The civil war begins, april 12, 1861. Robert Smalls, slave, hijacks a gunboat to the union fleet. The emancipation proclamtion. Death at Gettysburg. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. The south surrenders. The assassination of Lincoln. The freedman's plight. A radical republican. President on trial: Andrew Johnson. A senator from Mississippi: Blanche K. Bruce. A black man is paid a visit by the KKK, 1870. The election that ended reconstruction. The rise of industry. The vanishing frontier. For whites only. Into the twentieth century. The Spanish-American war. The horseless carriage: Henry Ford. Ghetto. Career of Theodore Roosevelt from sickly childhood to trust buster and square deal president. New explorers: Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson conquer the North Polo. Into the air age: Wilbur and Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, 1903. |
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