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1822 - Florida became a U.S. territory.
1867 - America through the dealings of US Secretary of State William H.
Seward bought Alaska from Russia. At the time, this purchase was
nicknamed Seward's Folly.
March 30,
1870
15th Amendment adopted
Following
its ratification by the requisite three-fourths of the states, the 15th
Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, is formally
adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Passed by Congress the year before,
the amendment reads, "the right of citizens of the United States to
vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
One day after it was adopted, Thomas Peterson-Mundy of Perth Amboy, New
Jersey, became the first African American to vote under the authority
of the 15th Amendment.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4876
1870 - Texas was readmitted to the Union.
March 30,
1981
President Reagan shot
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest
outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John
Hinckley Jr.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=VideoArticle&id=6852