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19th Century Turning Points in U.S. History

America entered the 19th Century an agricultural nation of 16 states and 5.3 million people. This series is made up of 55 stand-alone segments that highlight significant historical events, scientific milestones and cultural achievements
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19TP $220.00/yr
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1800-1813
  • 1800 - Washington DC Becomes the Nation's Capitol
  • 1803 - The Louisiana Purchase
  • 1804 - Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • 1807 - Robert Fulton Awakens the World to the Steamboat
  • 1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe
  • 1811 - New Madrid Earthquake
19TP-001 $27.50/yr
1814-1826
  • 1814 - Washington DC is Captured and Burned by the British
  • 1814 - Star Spangled Banner is Written
  • 1815 - Battle of New Orleans
  • 1819 - Washington Irving Publishes "Rip Van Winkle" - 1819
  • 1821 - Inauguration of the Santa Fe Trail
  • 1825 - Erie Canal is Completed
  • 1826 - James Fenimore Cooper Publishes "Last of the Mohicans"
19TP-002 $27.50/yr
1827 - 1846
  • 1831 - Cyrus McCormick Demonstrates His Mechanical Reaper
  • 1831 - Nat Turner Begins His Rebellion
  • 1832 - Black Hawk War Ends with Massacre at Bad Axe River
  • 1836 - Alamo Falls
  • 1845 - Edgar Allen Poe Publishes "The Raven"
  • 1846 - The Donner Party Starts West
  • 1846 - United States Declares War on Mexico
19TP-003 $27.50/yr
1846 - 1860
  • 1846 - Dr. John Morton Demonstrates Painless Surgery Using Ether
  • 1848 - Gold is Discovered at Sutter's Mill
  • 1849 - Treaty Between U.S. and Hawaiian Islands
  • 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe Publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
  • 1854 - Commodore Perry Lands in Japan
  • 1858 - Lincoln Douglas Debates Begin
  • 1860 - Pony Express Mail Service Begins
19TP-004 $27.50/yr
1861 - 1865
  • 1861 - Eleven States Comprise the Confederacy
  • 1862 - Congress Sets Forth the Homestead Act
  • 1863 - Lincoln Signs Emancipation Proclamation
  • 1863 - Lincoln Delivers His Gettysburg Address
  • 1865 - Lee Surrenders at Appomattox
  • 1865 - Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated
  • 1865 - Formation of the Ku Klux Klan
19TP-005 $27.50/yr
1866 - 1870
  • 1867 - Carpetbaggers Descend on the South
  • 1867 U.S. Acquires Alaska . . . Seward's Folly
  • 1868 - President Andrew Johnson is Impeached
  • 1869 - Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
  • 1870 - Rockefeller Incorporates Standard Oil Co. of Ohio
19TP-006 $27.50/yr
1871 - 1881
  • 1871 - Chicago Fire
  • 1872 - Susan B. Anthony is Arrested for Voting
  • 1875 - Robert Smalls, Former Slave, Elected to the House
  • 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell Demonstrates the Telephone
  • 1876 - Battle of Little Bighorn
  • 1879 - Thomas Edison Demonstrates the Incandescent Lamp
  • 1880 - George Eastman Patents Kodak Roll Film
  • 1881 - Booker T. Washington Opens Tuskegee Institute
19TP-007 $27.50/yr
1881 - 1898
  • 1881 - Clara Barton Organizes the American Red Cross
  • 1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act Passed by Congress
  • 1885 - Mark Twain Publishes "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
  • 1889 - Oklahoma Land Rush begins
  • 1890 - Battle at Wounded Knee
  • 1893 - First Gas Powered Automobile is Demonstrated
  • 1896 - Plessy vs. Ferguson Case Upholds Segregation
  • 1898 - Sinking of the Maine
19TP-008 $27.50/yr