CXII. THE PLEASANTNESS OF AMERICAN LIFE CXIII. THE UNIFORMITY OF AMERICAN LIFE. EXPLANATION (BY MR. G. BRADFORD) OF THE NOMINATING 1841-1845 1837-1841 MARTIN VAN BUREN. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (died 1841). JOHN TYLER. ZACHARY TAYLOR (died 1850). MILLARD FILLMORE. FRANKLIN PIERCE. AREA, POPULATION, AND DATE OF ADMISSION OF THE STATES THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES, IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY RATIFIED THE CONSTITUTION. STATES SUBSEQUENTLY ADMITTED, IN THE ORDER OF THEIR ADMISSION. DATES OF SOME REMARKABLE EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES AND UNITED STATES. 1759 1775 Battle of Heights of Abraham and taking of Quebec. 1776 1781 1783 1787 1788 1789 Declaration of Independence. Formation of the Confederation. Independence of United States recognized. 1793 Invention of the Cotton Gin. Purchase of Louisiana from France. 1812-14 War with England. 1812-15 Disappearance of the Federalist Party. 1819 1830 1840 1844 1845 First Passenger Railway opened. National Nominating Conventions regularly established. Admission of Texas to the Union. 1846-48 Mexican War and Cession of California. 1852-56 Fall of the Whig Party. 1854-56 Formation of the Republican Party. 1857 Dred Scott decision delivered. 1861-65 War of Secession. 1869 First Trans-Continental Railway completed. 1877 1879 Final withdrawal of Federal troops from the South. |