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3 giorni fa · Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania. 1800–1810. 1810–1819. 1820–1829. 1830–1839. 1840–1849. 1850–1859. 1860–1869. 1870–1879. 1880–1889. 1890–1899.
6 mag 2024 · John Augustus Sutter. The discovery of gold on Sutter's land in 1848 started the California Gold Rush. California Gold Rush: Sutter's Mill. A replica of Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. During construction of the mill, gold was discovered, which triggered a gold rush. (more)
2 giorni fa · By 1855, the economic climate had changed dramatically. Gold could be retrieved profitably from the goldfields only by medium to large groups of workers, either in partnerships or as employees. By the mid-1850s, it was the owners of these gold-mining companies who made the money.
28 apr 2024 · In the 1850s, the Democrats controlled the state and enacted anti-Black legislation. Even though Black slavery had never existed in California, the laws were harsh. The Republican Party came to power in the early 1860s, and rejected exclusion and legislative racism.
14 mag 2024 · Know-Nothing party, U.S. political party that flourished in the 1850s. It was an outgrowth of the strong anti-immigrant and especially anti- Roman Catholic sentiment that started to manifest itself during the 1840s. A rising tide of immigrants, primarily Germans in the Midwest and Irish in the East, seemed to pose a threat to the ...
9 mag 2024 · Indian Mutiny, widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 1857–59. Begun in Meerut by Indian troops ( sepoys) in the service of the British East India Company, it spread to Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, and Lucknow. In India it is also called the First War of Independence and other similar names.
14 mag 2024 · In the decade of the 1850s, the decade before secession, the slavery issue became so dominant, that it literally rearranged the entire political landscape. Previous to this, in the 1830s and '40s, two national parties, the Democrats and the Whigs, had competed throughout the country on nearly equal terms.
