Romanticism Era By dtaylor2019 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1832 First Wagons Cross the Continental Divide on the Oregon Trail 1832 Six Year Campaign Known as the Trail of Tears Begins to Remove Indians from their Homes on the East Coast 1835 Revolution of Texas Begins with the Battle of Gonzales 1835 Fire in New York Destroys 530 Buildings Including the New York Stock Exchange 1845 Texas Added as a State 1849 Gold Rush 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne Published One of His Most Famous Novels, "The Scarlet Letter" 1850 Congress Passes the Fugitive Slave Act 1851 Herman Melville Published Moby Dick 1851 First YMCA Opens in Boston, Massachusetts 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act Becomes Law 1855 Walt Whitman Published First Edition of "Leaves of Grass" 1861 Start of American Civil War 1861 Abraham Lincoln Sworn in as President 1861 First Battle of Bull Run 1862 Homestead Act Approved 1865 End of Civil War/End of Romanticism 1865 Abraham Lincoln Assassinated in Ford's Theatre
