1848
Seneca Falls-womens rights convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
1859
Darwin's Origin of Species published
The ramifications of those ideas
would unfold over the course
of the following decades...
1862
"The President (Abraham Lincoln) and General McClellan
on the Battlefield of Antietam." -- photograph, 1862
1864
The Underground Railroad assists people fleeing the south.
(Link to archive of 19th-C slave narratives)
Sojourner Truth
1865
New York Stock Exchange building is erected.
1869
The trans-continental railroad is completed when eastern and western
branches are joined at Promontory Point, Utah.
On to the next decade>
"Nineteenth-century Regional Writing in the United States" is the work
of Dottie Webb.
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