literature

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Jan 1, 1855

Emily Dickinson writes several hundred poems

Period: Oct 15, 1860 to Oct 15, 1865

End of Civil War

Oct 15, 1865

Civil War ends and Thirteen Amendment was passed which abolished slavery. Lincoln Assasinated.

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain

Oct 15, 1867

Congress institutes 8-hour workday

Oct 15, 1868

14th amendment: citizenship to all

Oct 15, 1868

citizenship given to people born in U.S.

First Railroad

Oct 15, 1869

built mostly by Chinese workers, and Women's suffrage Association names Elizabeth Cady president

15th amendment

Oct 15, 1870

15th amendment is ratified, giving blacks the rright to vote

Jim Crow Laws begin

Oct 15, 1877

Henry James Daisy Miller

Oct 15, 1878

women lawyers

Oct 15, 1879

Women are allowed to argue on front of Supreme court as lawyers, and Thomas Edison invent lightbulb

Huge immigration from Europe to U.S.

Period: Oct 15, 1880 to Oct 15, 1910

Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Oct 15, 1884

Statue of Liberty dedicated

Oct 15, 1886

Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wall-paper

Oct 15, 1892

Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin

Jan 14, 1893

Stephen Crane Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Oct 15, 1893

James Mooney Ghost Dance Songs

Oct 15, 1896

United States anexxes Hawaii

Oct 15, 1898

Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie

Oct 15, 1900

Booker T Washington Up from Slavery

Oct 15, 1901