People
Cyrus Field
Commercial center of the nation in the 1800s
New York City
Erie Canal
Event that caused widespread starvation in Ireland and resulted in four million immigrants coming to America in the 1840s
Potato famine of the 1840s
The first successful steamboat was developed on this date
1807
Dorothea L. Dix
Brook Farm
Types of organized slave labor on plantations; system in which slaves worked in large groups doing a specific job from sunup to sundown; system in which slaves were assigned tasks to complete
Gang system and task system
Treaty that ended the Mexican War and in which Mexico recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary of Texas and ceded California and New Mexico to the United States
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York
1848
German-American who established the American Fur Company and the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in the early 1880s
John Jacob Astor
Location of a gold discovery in California's Sacramento Valley in 1848
Sutters Mill
Plebiscite
Series of battles over a period of six weeks in which General Grant worked his way around Richmond to Petersburg with the objective of further diminishing General Robert E. Lee's army through attrition
Overland Campaign
The Mexican-American War took place on these dates
1846-1848
Mississippi senator who became the first Black American elected to Congress
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Confederate port that surrendered the day after the Union victory at Gettysburg, both events together representing the turning point of the Civil War
Legislation that divided the former Confederacy (except for Tennessee) into five military districts and appointed military officers with broad powers to govern each district
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Battle in which Union forces under General A. E. Burnside suffered over ten thousand casualties, twice the number suffered by the Confederates.
Battle of Fredericksburg
Lee surrenders to Grant on this date
April 9th, 1865
Union general who replaced General Joseph Hooker and commanded Union forces at the Battle of Gettysburg
George G. Meade
Location of the first women's rights convention in 1848
Seneca Falls
Legislation that allowed the United States to possess islands where guano was found to help Southern farmers have good fertilizer
Guano Islands Act
Union victory under General Ulysses S. Grant that cleared the way for Union troops to invade Georgia
Battle of Chattanooga
The Oregon Treaty was signed on this date
1846