News / Life / Clark County Life Fort Vancouver’s presidential pipes were the election swag of the 1840s and 1850s Fort curator: ‘You can learn a lot about people through these patterns’ ...

1840s-1850s: Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush. ... In 1850, the California territory became a state of the Union. The gold mining frenzy had stripped the land of its natural resources.

During the 1840s and 1850s, up to 125 freedom-seekers spent their last night on U.S. soil at Sidney and Olive Jackson Clark's log home in Oswego before heading to Canada.

HEYDAY: THE 1850S AND THE DAWN OF THE GLOBAL AGE By Ben Wilson Basic Books, $32.50, 520 pages Two long afternoon immersions in Ben Wilson’s book left me feeling as if I had been on a high-speed ...

Description. Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” talked about the anti-immigrant sentiment during the 1840s and 1850s. He discussed secret organizations like the Know Nothings ...

The capital city of Ohio was a minor boomtown in the 1840s and 1850s. A local history written a few decades later described the remarkable growth of Columbus: "In 1847, an epoch of general prosper… ...

The antislavery politicians of the 1840s and 1850s did not speak with a single voice. Some opposed slavery for moral and religious reasons and hoped to wipe its terrible mark from the body politic ...

Daguerreotypes were widely popular in the 1840s and 1850s and it's estimated that 3 to 5 million were made in the United States. But only 30,000 to 40,000 still exist.

The line belongs to Robert Frost, but Gen. James W. Ripley, commandant of the Springfield Armory during the 1840s and 1850s, was an ardent proponent of the “strong fence principle.” ...