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1841

• First U.S. president to die in office

• Telegraph invented

• Whig Party forms

• Mexican War begins

1846

• Mexican War begins

• First U.S. President dies in office

• Whig Party forms

• Telegraph invented

1848

• Seneca Falls Convention

• California admitted as free state

• Fugitive Slave Law enacted

• Whig Party collapses

1850

• Fugitive Slave Law enacted

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Mexican War ends

• Whig Party collapses

1854

• Republican Party formed

• California admitted as free state

• Dred Scott Decision

• Uncle Tom's Cabin published

1857

• Dred Scott Decision

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Lincoln elected 16th president

• South Carolina secedes

1860

• South Carolina secedes

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Civil War begins

• Slavery outlawed in U.S.

1861

• Civil War begins

• South Carolina secedes

• Lincoln elected 16th U.S. president

• Slavery outlawed in U.S.

1865

• Confederacy collapses

• Civil War begins

• Transcontinental Railroad complete

• Emancipation Proclamation issued

1869

• Transcontinental Railroad complete

• Reconstruction ends

• Edison invents light bulb

• Slavery outlawed in U.S.