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On September 24, 1869, the U.S. gold market collapsed.Â
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Determined to acquire the land, Polk sent American troops to Texas in January of 1846 to provoke the Mexicans into war.
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Custer led little more than 200 men in an attack on the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull's camp on Montana's Little Bighorn River.
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When war broke out in 1861, kids across the North and the South said goodbye to their fathers, brothers, uncles, and cousins — or joined the military themselves.
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A hefty inheritance — and a desire to do good — helped Annie Turner Wittenmyer become one of America's foremost female reformers.
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Seasoned war veteran Zachary Taylor emerged from the Mexican War a hero, and won election to the presidency.
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Senator Charles Sumner's outspoken support of abolition and the rights of emancipated blacks drew both praise and criticism — and almost cost him his life.Â
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Sherman and Grant forged a bond during the appalling Battle of Shiloh.Â
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As a cadet at West Point, Ulysses S. Grant considered General Winfield Scott "the finest specimen of manhood my eyes had ever beheld."
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Her work on the Sanitary Commission helped convince her that in order for social reforms to take place, women needed the right to vote.
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He led his nation through the most difficult times it had known, restoring a shattered Union and ending slavery in America.
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Red Cloud, chief of the Oglala Sioux, fought unsuccessfully to save his people and their land from being seized by whites.
