1830-1870 By kwhite10 Dec 10, 1752 Ben Franklin discovers electricity Dec 4, 1781 Perpetual Union Dec 4, 1825 Irish immigration Dec 4, 1825 Hudson River School Dec 4, 1825 Cult of Domesticity Dec 4, 1825 Second Great Awakening Dec 4, 1827 Horace Mann Dec 4, 1828 Abolitionists Dec 4, 1828 Tariff of Abominations Period: Jan 1, 1830 to Dec 31, 1870 Romantic Period Dec 4, 1830 Dorothea Dix Dec 4, 1830 Whig Party Dec 4, 1830 William Lloyd Garrison Dec 4, 1830 Mormon Church Dec 4, 1831 Apologists Dec 4, 1831 Cyrus McCormick Dec 10, 1831 Cyrus McCormick invents reaper Nov 24, 1832 Nullification Dec 4, 1832 John C. Calhoun Dec 4, 1832 Compact Theory Dec 4, 1832 Bank War Dec 4, 1832 Worcester vs Georgia Dec 4, 1832 Spoils System Dec 4, 1832 Force Act Sep 1, 1833 Removal of deposits Dec 4, 1833 Lucretia Mott Dec 4, 1833 Democracy in America Dec 4, 1833 American Anti-slavery Society Dec 4, 1835 Alexis de Toqueville Sep 8, 1836 Transcendentalism Dec 4, 1836 Gag Rule Dec 4, 1837 John Deere Dec 4, 1837 Charles River Bridge Dec 10, 1838 Trail of Tears Dec 4, 1839 Trail of Tears Dec 4, 1840 Independent Treasury Jul 4, 1841 Frederick Douglass Dec 4, 1841 Perfectionism Dec 4, 1842 Commonwealth vs Hunt Dec 4, 1842 Webster-Ashburn Treaty Dec 4, 1842 Prigg vs Pennsylvania Nov 4, 1844 James K. Polk Aug 1, 1845 Manifest Destiny Aug 8, 1846 Wilmot Proviso Dec 4, 1846 Mexican-American War Dec 10, 1846 Mexican War Dec 4, 1847 Brigham Young Dec 10, 1847 Opera Macbeth first performed Jan 1, 1848 Mexican Cession Feb 2, 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Jul 19, 1848 Seneca Falls Convention Aug 14, 1848 Oregon Territory Dec 4, 1848 Popular Sovereignty Dec 4, 1848 Free Soilers Jun 4, 1850 Nashville Convention Dec 4, 1850 Republican Party Dec 4, 1850 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty Dec 4, 1850 Fugitive Slave Law Dec 4, 1850 Compromise of 1850 Dec 10, 1850 The Scarlet Letter Dec 4, 1851 Maine Laws Dec 4, 1851 Neal Dow Dec 10, 1851 Moby Dick Dec 4, 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe Dec 4, 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin Dec 4, 1853 Gadsen Purchase Dec 4, 1853 Underground railroad Dec 30, 1853 John Slidell Dec 4, 1854 Ostend Manifesto Dec 4, 1854 Kansas-Nebraske Act Dec 4, 1855 Bleeding Kansas Dec 4, 1855 Know Nothing Party Dec 4, 1856 Sumner-Brooks Affair Mar 6, 1857 Dred Scott vs Sandford Jun 26, 1857 Hinton Helper Sep 1, 1857 Lecompton Constitution Aug 27, 1858 Freeport Doctrine Dec 4, 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates Dec 4, 1860 Stephen Douglas Dec 4, 1860 Antebellum Dec 18, 1860 Crittenden Compromise Dec 4, 1861 Trent Affair Dec 4, 1861 Nature of the Union Dec 4, 1861 African American Soldiers Sep 17, 1862 Battle of Antietam Sep 22, 1862 Emancipation Proclamation Dec 4, 1862 Morril Land Grant Dec 4, 1862 Homestead Act Dec 4, 1863 National Banking Act Dec 4, 1867 William Seward