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The church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints is organized

Apr 6, 1830

Joseph Smith murdered

Jun 27, 1844

Brigham Young enters the Salt Lake Valley

Jul 24, 1847

Brigham Young as president of the church

Dec 27, 1847

•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.

Mar 1, 1855

LEAVES OF GRASS-Walt Whitman

Oct 10, 1855

Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court

Mar 6, 1857

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

Feb 27, 1860

Emily Dickenson writes serveral hundred poems

Period: Oct 11, 1860 to Oct 11, 1865

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

Jan 31, 1865

THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTRY-Mark Twain

Oct 11, 1865

Short story

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

Oct 11, 1868

Susan B Anthony president of American Equal Rights Association

Oct 11, 1869

young womens is organized

Nov 28, 1869

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

Oct 11, 1870

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

Oct 8, 1871

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

Oct 11, 1871

Econimic panic = financial depression till 1879

Oct 11, 1873

young mens is organized

Jun 10, 1875

Alexander Gram bell invents the telephone

Oct 11, 1876

Brigham young dies

Aug 29, 1877

Reconstruction ends, segregationist Jim Crow laws begin

Oct 11, 1877

DAISY MILLER: A STUDY-Henry James

Jul 11, 1878

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.

Oct 15, 1878

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

Jan 1, 1879

John Taylor becomes president

Oct 10, 1880

SONG OF MYSELF- Walt Whitman

Oct 10, 1881

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

Sep 4, 1884

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Oct 11, 1884

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."

Oct 11, 1884

Wilford Woodruff becomes president of the church

Apr 7, 1889

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

Oct 11, 1890

THE GHOST DANCE AND WOUNDED KNEE

Dec 11, 1890

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

Dec 29, 1890

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

Oct 11, 1891

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER- Charlotte Perkins

Oct 11, 1892

DESIREE'S BABY-Kate Chopin

Oct 11, 1893

MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREET- Stephen crane

Oct 11, 1893

Picture of stephen Crane

Financial panic of 1893

Oct 11, 1893

Plessy vs Ferguson upholds segregated transportation

Oct 11, 1896

SISTER CARRIE- Theodore Drieser

Oct 11, 1900

UP FROM SLAVERY- Booker T Washington

Oct 11, 1901

National Association for Advancement of Colored People founded NAACP

Oct 11, 1909