People gathering dead and wounded from the 'Colfax Massacre', Louisiana. Published in Harper's Weekly, May 10, 1873. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

<p>Though the 19th century saw the rise of populism, the labor movement and Jacksonian democracy, it also ushered in the Gilded Age, when men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan wielded vast control over politics and business.</p>


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The 19th century saw the rise of the labor movement, Jacksonian democracy and powerful Gilded Age men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and J.P. Morgan.

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<p>Slavery was widely practiced throughout the ancient world, and in the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, which helped propel the United States into the Civil War.</p>


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<span style="font-weight: 400">The monumental Dawes Severalty Act replaced tribal control of reservations with private land allotments, causing Native Americans to lose 62 percent of their pre-1887 holdings. In China, Yellow River flooding killed more than a million people. Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years on the British throne, construction began on the Eiffel Tower and a young deafblind girl named Helen Keller met her “miracle worker,” Anne Sullivan. In literature, Arthur Conan Doyle published “A Study in Scarlet,” introducing Sherlock Holmes. </span>

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In 1865, the American Civil War came to an end, President Lincoln was assassinated and the 13th amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the U.S. The Secret Service came into being, originally created to prevent widespread counterfeiting that plagued the financial system. Elsewhere in the world, rebels in the Dominican Republic forced out Spanish occupiers to restore their country’s independence, and in England, Lewis Carroll published “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” 

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The first store opens in the frontier town of Denver, Colorado

First Donner Party member dies

Senate passes Missouri Compromise

KKK founded

Construction on the Erie Canal begins

Frederick Douglass is born

“Good Housekeeping” goes on sale for the first time

The New Orleans Massacre

The Colfax Massacre

22 die in collapse of Ford’s Theatre, site of Lincoln assassination

Chinese gold miners are slaughtered in the Hells Canyon Massacre

Dominican Republic declares independence as a sovereign state