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- Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
1: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1820]] to [[1859]]'''.
3: === [[1820s]] ===
4: ...as-1970-1820.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1820]]
5: *[[1820]] - [[Missouri Compromise]]
6: *[[1820]] - [[Land Act]]
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
4: ...be his most significant discovery, occurred in [[1820]] during an expedition to the [[Greek islands]]. ...
12: On his return in [[1840]], he was made [[rear admiral]].
14: ... Zealand]]) were named after him. There is a street in Paris, Rue Dumont d'Urville, in the 8th distri...
16: ...near [[Meudon]], France. He is buried in the [[Cimetière du Montparnasse]], [[Paris]], France. - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
1: ...san Brownell Anthony - Age 28 - Project Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Antho...
2: ...[Image:Susan Brownell Anthony - Project Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Antho...
3: ...] [[civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led the effort to grant women th...
5: She was born in [[Adams, Massachusetts]], the daughter of [[Quaker]]s. Soon after her ...
7: ...New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]]. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
5: ...bert]] (mathematician and astronomer of the [[St Petersburg Academy of Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodor...
7: ...uchy-Kovalevskaya theorem]]) and essentially completed the study of [[rotating solid]]s, applying the ...
9: ...ta No. 8 (Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older si...
11: ... childhood scrutinising the strange scribbles. Something of it seems to have stuck for when she later ...
15: ... was so impressed he implored Sophia's father to let her take private mathematical study, calling her ... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...htingale,''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] ([[May 12]], [[1820]] – [[August 13]], [[1910]]), who came to b...
17: ...ejected the marriage proposal of politician and poet [[Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton]], ...
19: ...bert]], a brilliant politician who had been [[Secretary at War]] ([[1845]] – [[1846|46]]), a pos...
25: ...c.edu/nsa/nightingale.html] in Upper [[Harley Street]], London, a position she held until October [[18...
33: ... She sent many letters to Herbert, to facilitate better medical care. - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
1: [[Image:Harriet_Tubman_pic.jpg|thumb|225px|Harriet Tubman in 1880, Image provded by [http://classroo...
2: '''Harriet Tubman''' (born [[1820]] in [[Dorchester County, Maryland]], died [[Marc...
5: ... Born Araminta Ross, she later took the name Harriet after her mother. Around [[1844]] she married Joh...
9: ...to follow. On her way she was assisted by sympathetic [[Quaker]]s, members of the [[Abolitionist]] mo...
11: == Methods == - Brass instrument (5234 bytes)
3: ...ds brass instruments made of wood, like the [[cornett]], and [[woodwind instrument]]s made of brass, l...
14: * [[Cornet]]
15: * [[Cornett]] or ''[[Cornett|Cornetto]]''
30: * [[Trumpet]]
41: ... about 1795, and the [[French horn]] before about 1820. Natural instruments are still played in [[authen... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
14: | wife=[[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe]]
18: ...it was his [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]], [[John Quincy Adams]], who actuall...
22: ...s Spence Monroe (ca. [[1727]]-[[1774]]) and Elizabeth Jones (born ca. [[1729]]) were well-to-do farmer...
28: ... Monroe, the last American [[Revolutionary War]] veteran to serve as president, was almost uncontested...
30: ..., and a Northerner, [[John Quincy Adams]], as Secretary of State. Only [[Henry Clay]]'s refusal kept M... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ... bar and commenced practice in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
24: ...[Prussia]] in [[1797]]. While serving abroad, he met [[Louisa Catherine Johnson]], the daughter of an ...
26: He was elected to the [[Massachusetts]] State Senate in [[1802]], and was an unsucces...
28: ...ssador) to [[Russia]], in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]] from [[1809]] to [[1814]], a member of t... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
25: ...come to the [[New World]] in [[1631]] from the [[Netherlands]]. Martin's father was Abraham van Buren ...
27: ...ity|New York]], where he studied under [[William Peter van Ness]] ([[1778]]-[[1826]]), an eminent lawy...
33: ... Jackson|Jackson's]] [[United States Cabinet|cabinet]] in [[1829]].
35: ...at the moment was shown by his vote, in January [[1820]], for a resolution opposing the admission of [[M...
39: ...suffrage]]. His course in the Senate was not altogether consistent, though in this respect he is not t... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
20: ...[alcoholism]] as his marriage to [[Jane Means Appleton Pierce]] fell apart. He destroyed his reputatio...
22: ...nd handsome. And he was genuinely religious. And yet he was a timid man with a shallow, rigid, old-fas...
27: ...hip, and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. He also met [[Calvin E. Stowe]], [[Sargent S. Prentiss]], and...
29: ...thampton, Massachusetts|Northampton]], [[Massachusetts]], studying under Governor [[Levi Woodbury]] an...
40: ... encouraged Pierce to resign his Senate seat and return to New Hampshire, which he did in [[1841]]. Th... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...2]], [[1809]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]), sometimes called '''Abe Lincoln''' and nicknamed '''Hon...
46: ...of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in [[1862]], in his many speeches and writings wh...
48: ...ar measure which would set the stage for the complete abolition of the institution.
53: ...d land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on government land along the [[Sangamon River...
81: ...orship of the [[Oregon]] Territory. He declined, returning instead to [[Springfield, Illinois]] where,... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...m by LIFE Magazine. Apart from Gutenberg, the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]] has a...
4: ...d of printing was [[block printing]], pressing sheets of paper into individually carved wooden blocks ...
6: ...of the technique is not as apparent as with alphabetic based languages. Movable type did spur, however...
8: ...y all. The other candidate advanced is the [[The Netherlands|Dutchman]] [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]].
12: ... created per day. Books produced in this period, between the first work of Johann Gutenberg and the ye... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...pic mouth of the [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near the ancient city...
19: ...in particular [[Aristander of Telmessus]], interpreted this as an omen that the city would prosper, pa...
21: ...with exact knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frighten...
23: ...e five native villages scattered along the strip between Lake Mareotis and the sea, according to a his...
25: ...ion, Alexander left Egypt for the East and never returned to his city. His general, Ptolemy (later [[P... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...'s [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
6: ... accepted sighting of the continent occurred in [[1820]] and the first verified landing in [[1821]]. A [...
10: It has been assigned the [[Internet]] [[Top-level domain|ccTLD]] '''[[.aq]]'''.
15: ...by an [[ice sheet]] that is, on average, 2.5 kilometers thick.
24: ...arctica is covered by the [[West Antarctic Ice Sheet]]. - Qatar (10610 bytes)
31: ... by area|Ranked 162nd]] <br> 10,360 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> Negligible
48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
59: ...istory the arid climate fostered only short-term settlements by nomadic tribes. Bearing tribal monike...
61: ... diplomatic response of the British Protectorate set into motion the political forces that would event...
69: ...ery of oil, beginning in the [[1940s]], that completely transformed the nation's economy. Now, the c... - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
10: ...n="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Jamaica|In Detail]])
24: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]
56: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
65: ...r [[Taino]] people from South America, who first settled there around the year [[1000]] - [[400]] BC.
67: ...oduced over 77,000 tons of sugar annually between 1820 - 1824, which was achieved through the massive us... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
39: ...lows, most notably from [[Kilauea|Kīlauea]]. Ethnically, it is the only state that does not have ...
46: ...ehameha III meaning, "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness." It was also the motto of...
51: Nineteen islands and atolls extending across a distance...
56: ...ount Waialeale|Mount Waiʻaleʻale]] the wettest place on earth; it averages 11.7 m (460 in) o...
64: .... Local chiefs called [[alii|alii]] ruled their settlements and fought to extend their sway and defen... - Maine (17312 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 15]], [[1820]] |
38: ...ting both states into the union kept the balance between [[slave]] and free states. Maine's original c...
53: ...lude [[James Blaine]], [[Edmund Muskie]], [[Margaret Chase Smith]], [[William Cohen]], [[George J. Mit...
74: ...to the sea has been aptly summed up by American poetess [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] of Rockland and Ca...
81: ... the case of Maine there has been a partially offsetting rise in land also, due to the melting of heav... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
36: ... located east of [[Vermont]], north of [[Massachusetts]], south of [[Quebec]], [[Canada]], and west of...
44: ...hire International Speedway]] (formerly Loudon Racetrack), home of the [[Loudon Classic]], the longest...
49: ...three years after the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts and it was one of the [[13 colonies|thirteen co...
64: ...ny New Hampshire lawmakers are either wealthy or retired.
71: ...nd the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the east, [[Massachusetts]] to the south, and [[Vermont]] to the west.
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