U.S. History by Year, 1860-1879

Based on the clues, guess these American related things that happened in each year.

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Year	Hint	Answer
1879	This Wizard of Menlo Park perfects the lightbulb	Thomas Edison
1878	This teenage outlaw and gunfighter takes part in the Lincoln County War	Billy the Kid
1877	This Sioux chief and Little Bighorn combatant is killed in Nebraska	Crazy Horse
1876	This colonel is defeated by Native Americans at the Battle of Little Bighorn	George Armstrong Custer
1875	The Page Act was the first to limit immigration from this country	China
1874	Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a patent for this invention	Blue Jeans
1873	This outlaw and his gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the West	Jesse James
1872	This geothermal corner of Wyoming becomes the world's first National Park	Yellowstone
1871	A fire in this city that kills 300 and destroys 17,500 structures is blamed on a cow	Chicago
1870	The Standard Oil Company is founded by this business magnate	John D. Rockefeller
1869	The golden spike in Utah marks the completion of this railroad	Transcontinental Railroad
1868	This president becomes the first to be impeached by the House	Andrew Johnson
1867	The United States buys this territory from Russia at 2 cents an acre	Alaska
1866	This terrorist organization terrorizes the South, particularly targeting freed slaves	Ku Klux Klan
1865	This actor assassinates Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre	John Wilkes Booth
1864	This general's march to the sea destroys much of Georgia	William T. Sherman
1863	A battle near this Pennsylvania town becomes the deadliest in U.S. history	Gettysburg
1862	This man is inaugurated as president of the Confederacy	Jefferson Davis
1861	The Confederates attack this fort in Charleston Harbor	Fort Sumter
1860	This state becomes the first to secede from the union	South Carolina

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