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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)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] ex...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]]
51: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]] (1432-1488), [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[Ven... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
4: ...r the government of France to acquire one of the most valuable and famous statues in the world. The [[... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: '''Susan Brownell Anthony''', ([[February 15]], [[1820]] – [[March 13]], [[1906]]) was an [[United...
9: ..., and became recognized as one of the ablest and most zealous advocates of the complete legal equality...
13: ...procedure endangered women's health and lives, opposed [[abortion]] on practical and moral grounds and...
19: ...1887]]). Susan B. Anthony was also a friend of [[Josephine Brawley Hughes]], an advocate of women's ri... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: Kovalevskaya was born in [[Moscow]]. Her father was [[Vasily Vasilievich Kriukov...
5: Her mother was [[Elizaveta Fyodorovna Schubert]] (1820-1879). She was granddaughter of [[Theodor Schube...
9: ...on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her.
15: ...cs]] given to her by a family friend, she came across [[trigonometry|trigonometric]] concepts unfamili...
17: She died of [[tuberculosis]] in [[Stockholm]] and is interred there in the... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...htingale,''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] ([[May 12]], [[1820]] – [[August 13]], [[1910]]), who came to b...
9: ...re equally likely to function as [[cooks]] or [[prostitutes]]. Nightingale was particularly concerned...
13: ...1846]] she visited [[Kaiserwerth]], a pioneering hospital established and managed by an order of [[Nun...
15: == Rejection of marriage proposal ==
17: ... nursing, Nightingale continued to reject his proposal. - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
2: ... in [[Auburn, New York]]), also known as ''Black Moses'', was an [[African-American]] [[freedom fighte...
5: ... claimed she was born around 1825. Born Araminta Ross, she later took the name Harriet after her mothe...
9: ...was never captured and, in her own words, "never lost a passenger" despite the combined bounty for her...
19: == Post American Civil War life ==
27: * "I never lost a passenger." - Brass instrument (5234 bytes)
1: ...onator]]. Brass instruments are also called ''labrosones'', literally meaning "lip-vibrated instrument...
3: The view of most scholars (see [[organology]]) is that the term "...
41: ... about 1795, and the [[French horn]] before about 1820. Natural instruments are still played in [[authen...
76: Most brass instruments are fitted with a removable [[...
78: ... on the other hand, are highly directional, with most of the sound produced traveling straight outward... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
22: ...eland County, Virginia]], as an only child to a prosperous family, Monroe attended the school of Campe...
28: ...onary War]] veteran to serve as president, was almost uncontested in his two elections.
32: ...lings", in part because partisan politics were almost nonexistent. The [[United States Federalist Part...
34: ...y undiminished, followed nationalist policies. Across the facade of [[nationalism]], ugly sectional cr...
36: ...ce with independent countries in the Americas as hostile acts toward the United States. Monroe did not... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
22: ... admitted to the bar and commenced practice in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
24: ...n merchant living abroad. Despite his father's opposition to him having a foreign-born wife, Adams wed...
28: ...o [[1817]]. During this time, Adams and his wife lost to illness an infant daughter, born in [[1811]].
30: .... He is sometimes called the "Lone Wolf" for his positions during this time, because he often did not ...
32: ...emained the only American president unanimously chosen by the [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral colle... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ... of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|En...
33: ...the New York Senate covered two terms ([[1812]]-[[1820]]). In [[1815]] he became the state attorney-gene...
35: ... politics of New York and powerfully influenced those of the nation, and which did more than any other...
39: ..., then gradually abandoned the [[protectionist]] position.
43: ...rnal improvements and declined to support the proposal for a Panama Congress. As chairman of the judic... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
18: ...s so successful he turned down several important positions. Later, he was nominated for president as a...
20: ...ivil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
22: ...s and show her true affection. He was one of the most popular men in New Hampshire, polite and thought...
27: ...as transferred to Francestown Academy in spring [[1820]]. Later that year he was transferred to [[Philli...
40: ...in [[1806]] and died on [[1863]], was Pierce's opposite. She came from a aristocratic Whig family, and... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
44: Lincoln staunchly opposed the expansion of [[slavery]] into federal terri...
48: ...ing the [[Homestead Act]] (1862). However, he is most famous for his role in ending [[slavery]] in the...
59: ...poor areas along and near the river to grow and prosper. <!--Vidal _United States_ c1993 p704 quoting ...
61: ...the state of Illinois, and became steadily more prosperous. Lincoln served four successive terms in th...
63: Abraham Lincoln shared a bed with [[Joshua Fry Speed]] from [[1837]] to [[1841]] in Sprin... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...rg, the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]] has also been credited with this invention.
4: ...nique was also known in [[Europe]], where it was mostly used to print [[Bible]]s. Because of the diffi...
8: ... [[The Netherlands|Dutchman]] [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]].
12: ...nd copy a Bible, with the Gutenberg press it was possible to create several hundred copies a year, wit...
16: ...nce, Gutenberg's printing press spread rapidly across Europe. Within thirty years of its invention in ... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
7: ...|Fishing Boats in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close to Kait Bey Castle]]
19: ...interpreted this as an omen that the city would prosper, particularly in grain. Other authors make the...
23: ...y one possible site, behind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Ni...
29: ... number-theorist [[Euclid]]. From this division arose much of the later turbulence which began to mani...
34: ...is example was followed by [[Marc Antony]], for whose favor the city paid dear to [[Octavian]], who pl... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
2: ...lite orthographic.jpg|thumb|250px|A satellite composite image of Antarctica]]
4: ...located near the Earth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
6: ...ever, contains a southern continent that bears a possible resemblance to the Antarctic coast. (See als...
24: ...ontinent west of the Weddell Sea and east of the Ross Sea is called [[Western Antarctica]] and the rem...
30: Several nations, particularly those close to the continent, made territorial claims in the... - Qatar (10610 bytes)
57: ...endent state on [[September 3]] [[1971]]. Unlike most neighbouring emirates, Qatar declined to become ...
59: ...rs, for the bulk of its history the arid climate fostered only short-term settlements by nomadic tribe...
61: ...tar?s status as distinct from Bahrain. The man chosen to negotiate with Colonel Pelly was a respected...
71: ...ern Europe]]an nations. Qatar has the highest [[Gross domestic product|GDP]] per capita in the develop...
80: ...is area also contains Qatar's main onshore oil deposits, while the natural gas fields are offshore, to... - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
67: ...oduced over 77,000 tons of sugar annually between 1820 - 1824, which was achieved through the massive us...
69: ...ed in blacks outnumbering whites by a ratio of almost 20 to one, leading to constant threat of revolt....
80: ...roving bills, and other state functions. For the most part, the monarch (through her representative, t...
84: ...inister, and the parliamentary [[Leader of the Opposition]].
94: ...aining Depot Newcastle. As on the British model NCOs are given several levels of professional training... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
13: PostalAbbreviation = HI |
39: ... continues to grow due to active [[lava]] flows, most notably from [[Kilauea|Kīlauea]]. Ethnicall...
46: ...ritten by [[Kalakaua|King Kalākaua]] and composed by [[Henri Berger]]. ''[[Hawaii Aloha|Hawaii A...
51: Nineteen islands and atolls extending across a distance of 2,400 km (1,500 mi) comprise the ...
56: ...ion ]] created impressive geological features. Those conditions created made [[Mount Waialeale|Mount ... - Maine (17312 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = ME |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 15]], [[1820]] |
36: ...e mainland as 'going over to the Main". Its U.S. postal abbreviation is '''ME'''. Four [[United States...
38: ... state along with [[Missouri]] on [[March 15]], [[1820]]. This has become known as the [[Missouri Compro...
43: ...936|1936 presidential election]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] received the Electoral Votes of every stat... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = NH |
36: .... presidential election]]s, and has probably the most famous of all [[state motto]]s: "[[Live free or ...
49: ...Battle of Bunker Hill]] that took place north of Boston a few months later.
51: ...ounding of the modern [[Republican Party]] by [[Amos Tuck]] and friends. New Hampshire grew as a hotbe...
58: ...epublican) and [[John E. Sununu]] (Republican), whose father [[John H. Sununu]] was governor of the st...
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