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American
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Major US
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1817
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1817 James Monroe |
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1819 “The Legend of Sleepy
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1820
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1820 Maine admitted as twenty-third
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1825 John Quincy Adams |
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1827 140 antislavery groups exist in United
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1828 Webster’s American Dictionary
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1829 Andrew Jackson |
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1830
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1834 Whig party founded. |
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1835 “Young Goodman Brown” |
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1836 The Alamo falls in March. |
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1837 Martin Van Buren |
1837 First U.S. women’s college, Mount
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1840
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1841 William Henry Harrison
1841 John Tyler |
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1843 “The Birthmark”
1843 “The Black Cat” |
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1844 Samuel F. B. Morse perfects the
telegraph. First telegraph line strung between Washington, D.C.,
and Baltimore. |
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1845 “The Purloined Letter” |
1845 James Knox Polk |
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1847 Frederick Douglass begins abolitionist
newspaper (the North Star). |
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1849 Zachary Taylor |
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1850
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1850 Millard Fillmore |
1850 First national women’s rights
convention held in Worcester, Massachusetts. |
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1853 “Bartleby, the Scrivener” |
1853 Franklin Pierce |
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1854 Republican Party established. |
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1857 James Buchanan |
1857 Atlantic Monthly established in Boston.
1857 U.S. Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford
legalizes slavery in U.S. territories.
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1860
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1860 South Carolina secedes. Ten other states
follow within a year. |
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1861 Abraham Lincoln |
1861 Civil War begins. Jefferson Davis
becomes president of Confederacy. |
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1863 Lincoln issues Emancipation
Proclamation. |
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1865 “The Notorious Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County”
(First published as “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County” in the New York Saturday Post) |
1865 Andrew Johnson |
1865 Civil War ends. Abraham Lincoln
Assassinated. Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery. Ku Klux Klan
organized. |
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1869 “The Outcasts of Poker
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1869 Ulysses S. Grant |
1869 Susan B. Anthony becomes president of
the National Woman Suffrage Association. First blacks elected to
U.S. Congress. |
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1870
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1876 Telephone patented by Alexander Graham
Bell. National Baseball League founded. |
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1877 Rutherford B. Hayes |
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1880
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1881 James A. Garfield
1881 Chester A. Arthur |
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1885 Grover Cleveland |
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1886 “A White Heron” |
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1889 Benjamin Harrison |
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1890
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1890 Wyoming is the first state to include
women as voters |
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1893 Grover Cleveland |
1893 Henry Ford road-tests first
automobile. |
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1897 William McKinley |
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1899 “Europe”
1899 “The Passing of Grandison” |
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