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  • The church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints is organized

  • Joseph Smith murdered

  • Brigham Young enters the Salt Lake Valley

  • Brigham Young as president of the church

  • •March. After pro-slavery Missourians cross the Kansas border to elect a territorial legislature, Free State Kansans vote to outlaw slavery and set up their own capital at Topeka.

  • LEAVES OF GRASS-Walt Whitman

    LEAVES OF GRASS-Walt Whitman

  • Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court

    After being brought to free territory by his owner, Scott sued for his freedom, but the court ruled that he had never ceased to be a slave, denied that he was a citizen, and denied him the right to sue.

  • Abraham Lincoln elected president

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    Emily Dickenson writes serveral hundred poems

  • The civil war ends, Lincoln assassinated, Thirteenth Amendment ratified slavery

  • THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTRY-Mark Twain

    THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTRY-Mark Twain

    Short story

  • Fourteenth Amendment passed, guaranteeing citizenship to all people born in the US, 8 hour work day

  • Susan B Anthony president of American Equal Rights Association

  • young womens is organized

  • Fifteenth Amendment= african american men the right to vote, ratified

  • Chicago is almost destroyed by fire, Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

  • Indian Appropriation Act ends the practice of negotiating treaties with the tribes as sovereign nations

  • Econimic panic = financial depression till 1879

  • young mens is organized

  • Alexander Gram bell invents the telephone

  • Brigham young dies

  • Reconstruction ends, segregationist Jim Crow laws begin

  • DAISY MILLER: A STUDY-Henry James

    DAISY MILLER: A STUDY-Henry James

  • Although he has not yet perfected the incandescent light bulb, Edison establishes Edison Electric Light Company in New York City, Women's Suffrage Amendment is introduced into Congress but fails.

  • Using first carbonized cotton and then carbonized bamboo for a filter, Edison invents a functioning light bulb.

  • John Taylor becomes president

  • SONG OF MYSELF- Walt Whitman

    SONG OF MYSELF- Walt Whitman

  • According to the Telecommunications History Timeline, the first commercially successful long-distance service is established between Boston and New York.

  • ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

    ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

  • A ten-story building in Chicago is the world's first true "skyscraper." Democrat Grover Cleveland is elected president over James G. Blaine, whose supporters had denounced the Democrats as a party of "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion."

  • Wilford Woodruff becomes president of the church

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Law, Yosemite Park created by Act of Congress • 1889-90 Jane Addams sets up Hull House, the first of many settlement houses to aid the poor

  • THE GHOST DANCE AND WOUNDED KNEE

    THE GHOST DANCE AND WOUNDED KNEE

  • Two hundred Sioux are killed by soldiers at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

  • Thomas Edison patents a motion picture camera, the "kinetoscope," which is capable of showing movies to one person at a time.

  • THE YELLOW WALLPAPER- Charlotte Perkins

    THE YELLOW WALLPAPER- Charlotte Perkins

  • DESIREE'S BABY-Kate Chopin

    DESIREE'S BABY-Kate Chopin

  • MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREET- Stephen crane

    MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREET- Stephen crane

    Picture of stephen Crane

  • Financial panic of 1893

  • Plessy vs Ferguson upholds segregated transportation

  • SISTER CARRIE- Theodore Drieser

    SISTER CARRIE- Theodore Drieser

  • UP FROM SLAVERY- Booker T Washington

    UP FROM SLAVERY- Booker T Washington

  • National Association for Advancement of Colored People founded NAACP