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Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass
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EMILY DICKINSON WRITES POEMS
Emily Dickinson had a very religious upbringing. She wrote more than 100 poems in this period of time. Many of her poems dealt with death and immortality. Her first collection of poems was not published until 1890, after her death. -
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CIVIL WAR
Between the Confederate States of the South and the Union States of the North. The war had many causes, one root of it was the debate over the slavery of black people. -
Abraham Lincoln Assasinated
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Mark Twain publishes The Notorious Frog of Calaveras County
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Reconstruction of the South
After the Confederate South lost the Civil War in 1865, an era of reconstruction began when the North tried to help the South transition. -
13th Amendment
Abolishing slavery! -
14th Ammendment Passed
Citizenship to everyone born in the United States, wth the exception of Native Americans. -
First transcontinental railroad complete
Completed mostly through the work of Chinese immigrant workers -
15th Ammendment
Black American's right to vote! -
Indian Appropriation Act
Ends the practice of negotiating treaties with the tribes as sovereign states. -
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Economic Panic and Depression
Many things contributed to this world-wide economic depression. In the United States there were many fires and speculative investments that drove bank reserves down. This was known as the Great Depression until the 1930s depression. -
Invention of barbed wire
Effectively ends the open range. -
Civil Rights Act passed
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Jim Crow Laws enacted
Separate but equal mentality. Don't these boys look educated? -
Battle Little Big Horn River, Montana
Custer's regiment defeated by the Souix and the Cheyenne. -
Henry James publishes Daisy Miller
The story of a young American man who is enamoured with a young girl named Daisy. Diasy defies normal social behavior for women and eventually dies. -
Female lawyers permitted to argue before the Supreme Court
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Thomas Edison invents the electric lightbulb
What would later allow many writers to continue writing into the very late evenings! -
Helen Hunt Jackson publishes a Century of Dishonor
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Signed into law by president Chester A. Arthur. This act lmited the immigration of Chinese. -
Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional
Just kidding! -
Tailors' strike in NYC brings national attention to sweatshops
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Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Dawe's Act
Permitted the president to divide tribally owned lands into individual allotments, surplus lands sold to non-Indians. This lead to the Indians lossing 90 million acres by the time this act was repealed in 1934. -
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Federal troups massacre Big Foot's Minneconjou band and end the Ghost Dance rituals amoung the Souix. -
Charlotte Perkins-Gilman publishes The Yellow Wallpaper
This story reflects on the popular practice of forcing women to be inactive and stop all creative work to cure depression. It also comments on womens' roles in sociey, but we didn't hear that from Perkins-Gilman, if you know what I mean. -
Kate Chopin published Desiree's Baby
The story of a young girl whose life is ruined when her baby is born half black. -
Stephen Crane publishes Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
The story of a young girl who comes from a disfunctional, poor family. It is alluded that she becomes a prostitute and then dies. -
James Mooney publishes the Ghost Dance Songs
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
Upholds segregated transportation. -
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Spanish-American Civil War
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Theodore Dreiser publishes Sister Carrie
The story of a young girl who moves to Chicago and is corrupted by the city. -
Booker T. Washington publishes Up From Slavery
His auto-biography and philosophy on how to be a black man in America. He argues that assimilation is the best way to earn respect from white Americans. -
Willa Cather publishes The Sculptor's Funeral
A metephorical comment on the death of art. -
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
Total bummer. -
National Association for the Advancedment of Colored People founded
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Morning Dove publishes Cogewea the Half Blood
This story highlights the inequity and racism prevelant in the US and directed toward Native Americans in that time. A Native American woman wins two horse races but accepts no prize money because of the deameaning and disrespectful way she is treated.
