Transcript Journal Information PPT

1850
• Harriet Tubman makes at least 19 clandestine
trips to the South to help slaves escape to
freedom.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
examines the concept of sin through a novel
about Puritans in colonial New England.
• Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine arrive
in the U.S.
• Diphtheria is established as an endemic disease.
It would become a particularly devastating killer
of children.
• California becomes a state
1851
• Herman Melville infuses Moby Dick with Old Testament
imagery. Later many would consider this book to be the
greatest American novel
• Sojourner Truth delivers her “Ain’t I A Woman?” speech at a
women’s rights conference in Akron, Ohio
• Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk
• Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)
• Yosemite Valley discovered in California
• Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine“
• 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
• 1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw
hat, white shirt & blue long trousers
• Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream
factory
• Isaac Singer patents sewing machine
• New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)
1852
• Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s
Cabin solidifies antislavery sentiment in the
northern states.
• Elisha Otis invents a safety hoist for
elevators, which makes taller building
feasible.
1853
• Railroads connect Chicago, Illinois to the East
Coast.
• Asian immigrants in San Francisco, California
establish America’s first Buddhist temple
• New York City establishes its first permanent
police force. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jQXjF9Y1HA
• Yellow fever claims more than 7000 lives in New
Orleans, Louisiana.
• The U.S. acquires parts of New Mexico and
Arizona through the Gadsden Purchase
agreement with Mexico
1854 - 1859
• The first public library opens in Boston
• The National Teachers Association is founded
• A railroad is completed connecting New York City and St. Louis, Missouri,
and Memphis, Tennessee with Charleston, South Carolina
• George Pullman designs sleeping cars for the Chicago &
Alton Railroad
• Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad
http://safari.aasd.k12.wi.us/SAFARI/montage/play.php?keyindex=20379
• The first Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company chain store
opens in New York
• Petroleum industry begins when oil is discovered in
northwestern Pennsylvania
• The Republican Party is formed
• Minnesota and Oregon become states
• John Brown leads battles against proslavery settlers known as “Bleeding
Kansas” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l4BftXQhUk
1860
• The Lady Elgin excursion ship collides with a
lumber ship on Lake Michigan, killing 300
people
• Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn NY, on her
last mission to free slaves, evading capture for
8 years on the Underground Railroad
• The Pony Express begins delivering mail from
Missouri to California http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1R-GeEd95c 3:08
• South Carolina secedes from the U.S., the first
secession leading to the establishment of the
Confederate States of America
• Dixie Land http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLlEpdNO1eQ Shirley Temple 1:26
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=776oLm9GXxQ Shirley Temple 1:54
1860
• Shoe – making workers strike successfully for
higher wages
• Organized baseball for the first time in San
Francisco
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNCY1R-Lsqw 8:07
• Democratic Convention split over slavery
• A Homestead Bill, providing federal land grants to
Western settlers, is vetoed by President
Buchanan under pressure from the South. The
veto divides Buchanan's Democratic party,
clearing the way for Abraham Lincoln's election in
a three-way race
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNmeOOJCDY 14:16
• Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president
1861
• President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states
unlawful . http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln/videos#abraham-lincoln 3:48
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEireOPLSbw
Lincoln’s Assassination
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRKtNJkqKF4
• Abraham Lincoln Mini Bio then Safari (on dashboard)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L80_q2tPveo
• 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter
• 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter,
SC
• PBS Fort Sumter 2:42
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9p7V7GrHjE
• Fort Sumter and the Civil War 3:40
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv-pTU99RcY
• Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
• Battle Hymn of the Republic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSvH4s-4sCQ
1861
• Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, Virginia,
Arkansas & Tennessee secede from the Union
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Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
Kansas becomes 34th state
Tennessee votes against secession
Abraham Lincoln declared president
Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at
Montgomery Alabama
Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
1st US nursing school chartered
Formal Union surrender of Ft Sumter
Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army
US president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states
1861
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Battle of Harper’s Ferry
Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
Richmond Va, is named the capital of the Confederacy
Causes of the Civil War – Crash Course #20 12:01
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY9zHNOjGrs
• Baltimore riots-4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed 4:18
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvTEgXV--S0
• Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
• Fort Sumter History - National Park Service Historian Rick Hatcher
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoj_fNAn9OE
• Civil War Reenactment 1:42
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8206fTwQZ9Q
1862
• US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
Monitor vs Merrimack – video clip,
• Civil War Ironclads (4:59)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ABzaEHQ4Hg
• The Monitor vs The Merrimac Battle (8:02)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmnnqJm_4Pc (8:02)
• Battle of Shiloh History video
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3daKd7z9mcg part 1(9:54)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIrAfrYhs6U part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ktYEcfFqw part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU3VtuYFuog part 4
1st US income tax
Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic“
Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched
Battle of Fredericksburg 2:26
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/videos#battle-offrederickson
1862
• 2nd Battle of Bull Run
• August 1862 -- Pope's Campaign
• Union General John Pope suffered defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run
on August 29-30. General Fitz-John Porter was held responsible for the
defeat because he had failed to commit his troops to battle quickly
enough; he was forced out of the army by 1863.
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Antietam 57:03
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tse4pbQp9cs
BatSeptember 1862 -- Antietam
On September 17, Confederate forces under General Lee were caught by General
McClellan near Sharpsburg, Maryland. This battle proved to be the bloodiest day
of the war; 2,108 Union soldiers were killed and 9,549 wounded -- 2,700
Confederates were killed and 9,029 wounded.
Antietam -- September-October 1862 (nos. 0126-0156)
John D Lynde patents aerosol dispenser
Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens
Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell
1862
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US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
US government collects its 1st income tax
Battle of Baton Rouge, LA
Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
December 1862 -- The Battle of Fredericksburg
General McClellan's slow movements, combined with General Lee's escape, and
continued raiding by Confederate cavalry, dismayed many in the North. On
November 7, Lincoln replaced McClellan with Major-General Ambrose E. Burnside.
Burnside's forces were defeated in a series of attacks against entrenched
Confederate forces at Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Burnside was replaced with
General Joseph Hooker.
Federal tax levied on tobacco
Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md), 23, 110 die
President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states
US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
Bowling ball invented
Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC
1863
• January 1863 -- Emancipation Proclamation
• May 1863 -- The Vicksburg Campaign
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYg3v9lUuNA Infantry Tactics in 4 minutes
• June-July 1863 -- The Gettysburg Campaign
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ALyq3seK2g Gettysburg in 4 minutes
• Nov 17th - Lincoln begins 1st draft of his
Gettysburg Address http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUcW9ORBFWI
(4
minutes)
• Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4
score & 7 years..."
• November 1863 -- The Battle of Chattanooga
1863
• Causes of Civil War in 4 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44wJ1gnBK0c
• Confederate Leaders in 4 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt2M8n_oV2I
• Union Leaders in 4 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJA7PV3wAoE
• Battlefield Death in 4 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt2M8n_oV2I
1863
• Jan 4th - 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY
• Jan 15th - 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston
Morning Journal
• Feb 2nd - Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
• Jul 7th - 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
• Jul 13th - Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die
• Jul 30th - Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel
prisoner for every black prisoner shot
• Aug 3rd - Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
• Oct 3rd - Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as
Thanksgiving Day
• Mar 25th - 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded
• May 5th - Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd
round
• Feb 10th - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane,
Virginia
1864
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May 1864 -- Grant's Wilderness Campaign
June 1864 -- The Battle of Cold Harbor
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIVIFLo0uE
First Use Of Submarine In Warfare,
Mar 1st - Rebecca Lee (US) becomes 1st black
woman to receive a medical degree
• Apr 22nd - US mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance
of "In God We Trust")
1864
• June 1864 -- The Siege of Petersburg
• July 1864 -- Confederate Troops Approach
Washington, D.C.
• August 1864 -- General William T. Sherman's
Atlanta Campaign
• November 1864 -- General William T. Sherman's
March to the Sea
• Nov 15th - 1st US mines school opens in
basement of Columbia University, NY
• Dec 29th - Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
1864
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November 1864 -- Abraham Lincoln Is Re-Elected.
Sherman at the Sea -- December 1864 (nos. 0710-0716)
Hood before Nashville -- December 1864 (nos. 0570-0578)
Jul 29th - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is
arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol
Prison in Washington, DC
Sep 30th - Black Soldiers given Medal of Honor
Oct 1st - John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for
President Lincoln
Oct 11th - Slavery abolished in Maryland
Nov 10th - Kingston, GA burned during Sherman's March to
the Sea
1865
• January 1865 -- Fort Fisher, North Carolina
• January 1865 -- The Fall of the Confederacy
• February 1865 -- Sherman Marches through North and South
Carolina
• February 1865 -- A Chance for Reconciliation Is Lost
• Jan 16th - Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Ft Fisher NC, 40 die
• Feb 8th - 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
• Feb 17th - Columbia SC burns down during Civil War
• Apr 14th - US Secret Service created to fight counterfeiting
• Nov 11th - Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded
Medal of Honor
1865
• April 1865 -- Fallen Richmond
• Oct 9th - 1st US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid
in Pennsylvania
Oct 10th - John Hyatts patents billard ball
• The Defenses of Washington -- 1865
• April 1865 -- Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
• Stetson Hats
• The Thirteenth Amendment Ratified
• Ku Klux Klan Formed
• Jul 21st - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild
Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as
the first true western showdown.
1865
• April 1865 -- The Assassination of President Lincoln - shot
by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
• Apr 17th - Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in
Lincoln's assassination
• April-May 1865 -- Final Surrenders among Remaining
Confederate Troops
• August - November 1865
• The Execution of Captain Henry Wirz -- November 1865
• New York Stock Exchange
• May 5th - 1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
• Jul 4th - 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
• Aug 12th - Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery