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Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism becomes popular due to Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Mormons
Mormonism begins -
Trail of Tears
Cherokees are forced to move from their homeland to Indian Reservations -
The Minister's Black Veil
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil" is published -
Whigs
The Whig Party is started -
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature" is written -
Washington Irving
Washington Irving begins to get many stories published -
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" is published -
Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War begins -
Oregon Territory
Americans begin to travel west after the Oregon Territory is purchased -
Mexican Cession
Mexico surrenders land to the United States at the end of the Mexican-American War -
Abolitionists
White American citizens begin to help runaway slaves reach the North -
Irish Immigration
Many Irish people begin to move to the United States during the Potato Famine -
Fugitive Slave Law
Slave owners can legally travel to the North to find runaway slaves -
Moby Dick
Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" is published -
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin" -
Republican Party
The Republican Party begins -
Walden
Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" is published -
President Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is elected president -
Secession
South Carolina is the first state to secede -
Civil War
The American Civil War begins -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln gives his Emancipation Proclamation speech, freeing all slaves