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| January 24, 1811 | Last of several acts to renew the charter of the first Bank of the United States fails in Congress | |
| January 24, 1848 | Discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in California | California |
| Compromise of 1850 | ||
| January 24, 1854 | Salmon Chase (writer) and Charles Sumner (editor) release the "Appeal of the Independent Democrats
in Congress to the People of the United States," attacking the Nebraska Act. (the appeal was written before the act was revised) |
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| Salmon P. Chase | ||
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | ||
| Democratic Party | ||
| January 24, 1856 | Franklin Pierce rejects the Topeka Constitution because the vote did not constitute "...the body politic" | Kansas |
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| Franklin Pierce | ||
| January 24, 1861 | Lucy, a female slave from Wheeling who fled to Cleveland, Ohio, is returned to her owner. She is the last slave to be returned under the Fugitive Slave Law | West Virginia |
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Siege of Petersburg | Virginia |
| Robert E. Lee | ||
| P. G. T. Beauregard | ||
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| Ulysses S. Grant | ||
| Siege of Petersburg | ||
| April 12, 1861 May 10, 1865 |
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