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Natural Rights, Citizenship Rights, State Rights, and Black Rights: Another Look at Lincoln and Race
Stephen Douglas was the first in a long line of observers...
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Joseph Smith murdered
A mob stormed the Carthage, Illinois, jail, and murdered Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church. Smith and his brother, who was also killed, were being held for destroying the printing press of a dissident who had attacked the practice of polygamy.
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First skyscraper
Construction of the world’s first skyscraper, designed by William LeBaron Jenney, was completed in Chicago. At ten stories, the Home Insurance Building rose to a height of 138 feet. Two additional stories were added in 1890.
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Hull House opened
In Chicago, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr opened Hull House, a settlement house offering services to the poor, the working-class, and immigrants.
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Race riot in Springfield, Illinois
A report of an alleged assault of a white woman by an African American man led to a race riot in the Illinois capital. On the second day of the riot, the Illinois National Guard was called in to put down the mobs, but black homes and businesses had already been destroyed and two black men lynched.
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Race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois
In East St. Louis, Illinois, a city where thousands of black laborers settled between 1915 and 1917, thirty-nine African Americans were murdered in a brutal race riot.