America - 1854AD

In 1854AD:

• a commercial treaty was signed between the U.S. and Japan, ending Japanese isolation.
• American writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau published Walden.
• The Republican party was formed after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act reopened the controversy over the spread of slavery.

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