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40 Events from 1860 to 1900 That Changed America

1861
In 1861, the opening shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The Civil War would rage for four years, dooming more than 600,000 Americans to be killed at the hands of other Americans. To finance the war, the government created what would go onto become an American institution: the income tax. Also, a new era in communication was ushered in that year when the completion of the transcontinental telegraph rendered the famed Pony Express obsolete.

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