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**The Count To 1 Million!!!!**

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we're getting into some interesting trivia now with these numbers!

1863 - Civil War!

January 1863 -- Emancipation Proclamation.
In an effort to placate the slave-holding border states, Lincoln resisted the demands of radical Republicans for complete abolition. Yet some Union generals, such as General B. F. Butler, declared slaves escaping to their lines "contraband of war," not to be returned to their masters. Other generals decreed that the slaves of men rebelling against the Union were to be considered free. Congress, too, had been moving toward abolition. In 1861, Congress had passed an act stating that all slaves employed against the Union were to be considered free. In 1862, another act stated that all slaves of men who supported the Confederacy were to be considered free. Lincoln, aware of the public's growing support of abolition, issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring that all slaves in areas still in rebellion were, in the eyes of the federal government, free.

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AHH! That's what I get for not double checking the #. Must be an off day today!
1864! which was the end of the Gold Rush
 
1870 historic facts
Franco-Prussian War.

John D. Rockefeller founds the Standard Oil Company.

Territory of Utah gives full suffrage to women; the first election in which they vote occurs on 1 August

Congress enacts the "Ku Klux Klan Act of 1870" or "Enforcement Act" to stop southern white resistance to the power African Americans have gained during Reconstruction.

22 June. Department of Justice is created.

5 December. When the 41st Congress meets, every state is represented, the first such Congress since 1860.
 
Sorry my bad,I said 1862 it should of been 1863.Someone must of beat me to the post before I wrote it.The civil war post was better anyways,go with that one.

1871
 
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