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Transcendentalist Club First Meeting
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Emerson publishes "Nature"
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Invention of the daguerreotype
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Emerson's Divinity Hall Sermon
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Francis Johnson's Philidelphia Christmas Concert
The first Integrated Concert by a Black Composer -
First Issue of "The Dial" published
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Elizabeth Peabody opens her "Foreign Library" in Boston
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New England Non-Resistance Society Meeting
Theodore Parker, Ripley, Alcott and Garrison start the abolitionist movement -
Thoreau moves to Emerson's house
Becomes Emerson children's tutor -
Brook Farm Commune established
Nathaniel Hawthorne moves in. ? -
Emerson publishes "Self Reliance"
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Collis Huntington opens Huntington's Merchandise
Onteonta, New York -
Bronson Alcott forms "Fruitlands" Commune
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Mathew Brady opens photography studio in New York
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Thoreau moves to Walden Pond
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Parker's "Sermon of War"
Crucial sermon against the Mexican war preached at the Boston Melodeon -
Thoreau Goes to Jail
Civil Disobedience is born -
Lincoln's "Spot Resolution" against the Mexican War
Challenged Polk about the cause of the war. -
Thoreau gives "Resistance to Civil Government" lecture
Concord Lyceum. ? -
Premiere of Stephen Foster's Ethiopian Melodies
Christy Minstrels -
Collis Huntington and Carleton Watkins arrive in San Francisco
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Herman Melville-Moby Dick
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Watkins goes to work for Huntington in Sacramento
Merchandise Business. ? -
Great Sacramento Fire
Destroys both Huntington and Mark Hopkins stores -
Walden published
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Lincoln's Peoria Speech
Against the Kansas Nebraska Act -
Carleton Watkins begins working in Robert Vance's Gallery
Marysville Gallery, San Francisco. ? -
Huntington and Mark Hopkins form Partnership
Sacramento retail trade -
Walt Whitman self-publishes "Leaves of Grass"
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Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown in Kansas . ? -
Lincoln's "House Divided" Speech
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John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid
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Thoreau gives "A Plea for Captain John Brown" Speech
Concord, MA -
Lincoln Elected President
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First Big Four meeting with Theodore Judah
Huntington, Hopkins, Stamford and Crocker plan the Central Pacific -
Fort Sumter Attacked
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Central Pacific Rairoad Incorporated
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Carleton Watkins arrives in Yosemite
Mamouth Plate Camera -
Thoreau dies of Tuberculosis
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Pacific Railway Act signed by Lincoln
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Clark & Rockefeller build first refinery
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Gettysburg Address
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Stephen Foster dies in poverty
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Rockefeller & Andrews consolidates Cleveland refinery
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Lee Surrenders at Appomattox
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Lincoln Assassinated
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Ku Klux Klan founded by General Nathan Forrest
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Huntington takes control of Chesapeake & Ohio
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Big Four purchase the Southern Pacific Rairoad
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Virginia bans School intergration
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Virginia erected in 1869 a constitutional ban against blacks and whites attending the same schools, followed by Tennessee in 1870, Alabama and North Carolina in 1875 -
Trancontinental Railroad Completed
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Black Friday Panic
James Fisk and Jay Gould try to corner the gold market -
Standard Oil of Ohio incorporated
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Drexel, Morgan & Co. Formed
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The Cleveland Conquest
Rockefeller consolidates oil refining -
Panic of 1873
Jay Cooke and Co. bankruptcy -
The White League establish in Louisiana
White Paramilitary group -
Battle of Liberty Place
White Leage paramilitary vs. Louisiana State Militia -
Wormsley House Agreement
Compromise of 1877 to withdraw Federal Troops from the south
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Electoral commission awards Rutherford B. Hayes the Presidency
185-184 electoral votes