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Western Expansion & Reform

	A Book Caused a War? "Uncle Tom's Cabin Appeared in Serial Form"
	A Book for Cooks! "Fannie Farmer Was Born"
	A Dark-Horse Democrat "James K. Polk Is Elected 11th President of the United States"
	A Forty-Niner Writes Home "Pioneer Life in Sacramento"
	A Great American President "Thomas Woodrow Wilson Was Born"
	A Monumental American Sculptor "American Sculptor Daniel Chester French Was Born"
	A Race For The Cup "The Schooner America Won the Hundred Guinea Cup"
	A Star Is Born "Comic Actor Joseph Jefferson Was Born"
	A Taft Act to Follow! "U.S. President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Howard Taft Was Born"
	Arctic Dreams "Arctic Explorer Robert E. Peary Was Born"
	Art to the Rescue "Painter Thomas Moran Was Born"
	Bird Brain "John James Audubon Died"
	Cannon Ball Dodge "The Battle of Buena Vista"
	Compromising -- the Great Clay Way! "The Day Henry Clay Died"
	Dot, Dot, Dash, Dot, Dash "Samuel F.B. Morse Sent the First Telegraphic Message"
	Going Up? "Otis Opened Elevator Factory"
	Grand Old Man of Nature "John Burroughs Was Born"
	Great Gadsden Purchase! "The Gadsden Purchase Was Signed in Mexico City"
	Happy New Year from Cyrus Eidlitz "Architect Cyrus Eidlitz Was Born"
	Home of Little Rock "Arkansas Became a State"
	How Do You Stop Niagara Falls? "Ice Dam at Niagara's Source"
	In What Year was the First Election Day? "Americans Observed the First Uniform Election Day"
	Invention Patented "The Artificial Leg is Invented"
	Killing the Messenger "Elijah Parish Lovejoy Was Killed By a Pro-slavery Mob"
	Liberia: From Colony to Country "Independence for Liberia"
	Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! "Lyman Frank Baum Was Born"
	Live Free or Die! "Amistad Mutiny Survivors Freed"
	New Boundaries, New Territories "The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Was Signed In Mexico City"
	Quilting A Legend "African-American Folk Artist Harriet Powers Was Born"
	Remember the Alamo! "Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna Recaptured the Alamo"
	Scraping The Skies "Architect Daniel H. Burnham Was Born"
	Settling the Great Salt Lake "Brigham Young Settled in the Great Salt Lake Valley"
	Shiver Me Timbers, Pirates Ahoy! "U.S. Naval Academy Was Formed"
	Sinking Fortunes "The Panic of 1857 Began"
	Stay Out of Foreign Affairs?! "Henry Cabot Lodge Was Born"
	Taking the Oregon Trail "Congress Created the Oregon Territory"
	The Fight For Women's Rights "Second Day of Seneca Falls Convention"
	The Land of 10,000 Lakes "Minnesota Became the 32nd State"
	The Raid on Harpers Ferry "John Brown Took Harpers Ferry Hostage"
	The Weeping Time "The Largest Slave Auction"
	There's Gold in That Creek! "Gold Discovered in California"
	Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn on the Mississippi "Samuel L. Clemens (Also Known As Mark Twain) Was Born"
	Two's a Crowd "John C. Frémont Was Found Guilty Of Mutiny"
	Welcome to the Great Lakes State "Michigan Becomes a State"
	Who Climbs a Mountain in Bloomers? "Julia Archibald Holmes Reaches Pike's Peak"
	You May Fire When Ready, Gridley "Commodore George Dewey Was Born"