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Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" was published. This was a collection of poetry that Whitman spent his life writing. -
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American Literature
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"Poem of Walt Whitman, an American"
This was the second version of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" poem that was orginally printed in 1855 as a part of "Leaves of Grass" -
,Song of Myself 1,7,11-13,24
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me belongs to you."
"Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?"
"Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;"
" The butcher boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market"
"The negro hold firmly the reins of his four horses, the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain"
"Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan.." -
Emily Dickinson
" A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" or "The Snake"
Poems 93-109 -
American Civil War
The American Civil war begins in 1861 and ends in 1865. Reconstruction begins. Lincoln is assinated and the 13th Amendment is ratified which prohibits slavery -
Sarah Winnemucca
Life Among the Piutes, Joel Chandler Harris, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story, and How Mr.Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox -
Mark Twain
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County was published
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The Fourteenth Amendment
The 14th Amendment was passed, guarenteeing citizenship to all peoples born in the United States (excluslive of Native Americans) -
Transcontinental Railroad
First transcontinental railroad completed by construction crews largely of Chinese laborers. -
Economic Panic
The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that lasted until 1879 -
Womens Temperance
Women's Christian Temperance Union founded in Cleveland -
Jim Crow Laws
Reconstruction ends and segregationist Jim Crowe laws begin -
Daisy Miller-Henry James
A novella by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine. A year later it became a book! -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison invents the electris light bulb! -
Women and Surpreme Court
Female lawyers are permitted to argue before Supreme Court! -
Immigration Boom!
Massive amounts of immigrants from Europe come to America between 1880 and 1910 -
Chinese Exclusion
The Chinese Exclusion Act was signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. Prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Rockerfeller and his oil
J.D. Rockerfeller organizes Standard Oil Trust -
Sweatshops
Tailors' strike in New York City and bring national attention to sweatshops -
Huckleberry Finn
The first copy of Marlk Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" was published in England. This book has since been banned and unbanned due to the use of the racist N word. It is considered to be one of the best written novels of all time as well as the worst. -
Lady Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was given to America from France on October 28, 1886. -
Allotment Act
The Allotment Act of 1887(also known as the Dawes Act) permits the president to divide tribally owned lands into individual allotments to be held in trust for 25 years, with "surplus" lands to be sold to non-Indians. Indians lost some 90 million acres of land by the time the Dawes Act was repealed in 1934. -
James Mooney
The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee -
Frontier to be Closed
The U.S. Bureau of the Census declares the "frontier" "to be closed". There is no more "free" or "unoccupied" -
Kate Chopin
Desiree's Baby and The Yellow Wall-Paper -
Theodore Drieser
Sister Carrie
Maggie, A Girl of the Streets -
We just keep getting bigger, and bigger
The United States population is 75 million at the start of the century -
Booker T Washington
Up from Slavery -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford founds Ford Motor Co., -
Wright Brothers
Wright Brothers make the first successful airplane flight -
NCLC
National Child Labor Committee formed ALSO, I was born 90 years later :) -
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution!
