Moby Dick Timeline - 1847-1855

By DB3120
  • Period: to

    4 Years Before and After 1851

  • San Francisco Gets Its Name

    San Francisco Gets Its Name
    California changes Yerba Buena to San Francisco.

  • Oregon Territory Created

    Oregon Territory Created

  • Slavery Abolished in all French Territories

    Slavery Abolished in all French Territories

  • Minnesota Territory is Organized

    Minnesota Territory is Organized

  • Zachary Taylor is President

    Taylor becomes the 12th President

  • Harriet Tubman Escapes

    Harriet Tubman Escapes
    Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland

  • Scarlet Letter Published

    Scarlet Letter Published
    Nathaniel Hawthorne published Scarlet Letter

  • First US Alcohol Prohibition Law Enacted

    First US Alcohol Prohibition Law Enacted
    Maine

  • Moby Dick was Published

    Moby Dick was Published

  • First American YMCA Opens

    First American YMCA Opens
    Boston, Massachusetts

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
    By Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Underground Railroad Begins

    Underground Railroad Begins
    Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Repealed Missouri Compromise and opened slavery to the north

  • First Bridge over Mississippi River

    First Bridge over Mississippi River
    Father Louis Hennepin Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota

  • First Locomotive Crosses Panama Canal

    First Locomotive Crosses Panama Canal

  • First Suspension Bridge for Railways

    First Suspension Bridge for Railways
    Niagara Falls