1830-1865

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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