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Mountain Men
Mountain Men US fur trappers and traders, who explored and developed the Rocky Mountains between the 1820s and 1840s. They caught public attention through their exploits and occupy an important position in the frontier legend. Their living conditions were harsh, and only a handful, such as Kit CARS... Read more
manifest destiny
manifest destiny belief held by many Americans in the 1840s that the United States was destined to expand across the continent, by force, as used against Native Americans, if necessary. The controversy over slavery further fueled expansionism, as the North and South each wanted the nation to admit ... Read more
Menasha
Menasha , city (1990 pop. 14,711), Winnebago co., E Wis., on Lake Winnebago and the Fox River, adjacent to its twin city of Neenah; settled 1840s, inc. 1874. Menasha's large paper-making industry, which is served by water power, dates from the late 19th cent. The region at the lake outlet was visite... Read more
saxophone
saxophone musical instrument invented in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax. Although it uses the single reed of the clarinet family, it has a conical tube and is made of metal. By 1846 there was a double family of 14 saxophones, seven in F and C for orchestral use and seven in E flat and B flat for bands. T... Read more
Sukkur
Sukkur , city (1998 pop. 329,176), SE Pakistan, on the Indus River. It is an important commercial and industrial city and a center for trade with Afghanistan. Its industries produce cotton and silk textiles, cigarettes, lime, cement, and foodstuffs. Boat building and handloom weaving are also import... Read more
Sutlej
Sutlej , longest of the five rivers of the Punjab , c.900 mi (1,450 km) long, rising in the Kailas Range, SW Tibet region of China, and flowing generally west, meandering through the Himalayas in India, then onto the Punjab plain where it receives the Beas River and forms part of the India-Pakistan... Read more
Bellevue
Bellevue . 1 City (1990 pop. 30,982), Sarpy co., E Nebr., a suburb of Omaha, on the Missouri River; inc. 1855. A railroad junction, it has manufacturing (fertilizers, computer and communication equipment, food, apparel, concrete products, whirlpool baths, feed) and telecommunications services. The... Read more
Isaac Butt
Isaac Butt 1813-79, Irish politician and nationalist leader. A member of both the Irish and the English bar, he was a noted conservative lawyer and scholar and an opponent of Daniel O'Connell . After the Irish famine experience of the 1840s, however, he became increasingly liberal, defended partic... Read more
incubator
incubator apparatus for the maintenance of controlled conditions in which eggs can be hatched artificially. Incubator houses with double walls of mud, a fireroom, and several compartments each holding about 6,000 hens' eggs were developed in ancient times; the Chinese have long used baskets with a ... Read more
Molly Maguires
Molly Maguires , secret organization of Irish-Americans in the anthracite mining districts of Pennsylvania. Its name came from a woman who led an extralegal, antilandlord organization in Ireland during the 1840s, and its membership was drawn from the Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish-American fr... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "1840s"

Lebanese Crises of the 1840s
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa LEBANESE CRISES OF THE 1840S druze versus christian sectarian violence. The London Treaty of 1840 ended the Egyptian occupation of Mount Lebanon (1831...
Artillery
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...the Native American wars . Later, in the 1840s, the Americans adopted rockets with explosive...with more accurate rifled artillery in the 1840s and 1850s caused rocket artillery to fall...Alfred Mordecai of the army during the 1840s, the field artillery system had 6...
Westernizers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...embodied decline and darkness. In the 1840s, in the course of a heated discussion...could be traced to the Westernizers of the 1840s. In modern scholarly literature, the...professors. In St. Petersburg of the late 1840s, some of them formed a group known to...
iron industry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...cooking utensils. During the 1830s and 1840s significant demand came from railways...even at the heights of the mania in the 1840s. Before 1850 manufacturers of many kinds...speed and larger cargo capacity. In the 1840s sheet iron plated with tin was invented...
Paiutes
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...through Paiute communities in the 1830s and 1840s. The limited contact with Euro-American...over the Oregon Trail began in the mid-1840s. Conflicts increased as more and more...including the Las Vegas Valley. Also by the 1840s the Paiutes to the north and south had...
Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...Massachusetts Free-Soil party in the 1840s, and joined the republican party toward...career at the state level. In the early 1840s, he was elected to the Massachusetts state...Massachusetts. This party emerged in the late 1840s to oppose the extension of slavery in newly...
Utopian and Communitarian Movements
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...communities in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and California from the 1840s through the 1880s. These humanitarian idealists saw in America...cooperative “social science.” By the 1840s, communitarianism—the idea that successful pilot...
James, Henry, Sr.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...Calvinism, one of whose books he edited (1838). During the 1840s and '50s, James lived in New York, and traveled abroad frequently, until in 1864 he settled in Boston. In the 1840s he was introduced to the doctrines of Swedenborg, and underwent...
railway stations
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...through undeveloped land: London Bridge (1836), and in the 1840s, the Great Western's route to Paddington ran to the fringe...similarly approached through uncongested lands in the 1830s and 1840s. Competition intensified the pressure to attain more central...
bridges
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...although Brunel and Cubitt still used timber extensively in the 1840s. Railways employed brick and cast and wrought iron to bridge Britain's great estuaries and rivers between the 1840s and the 1870s: the Dee, the Severn, the Tamar, the Solway...

Dictionary entries related to "1840s"

Filibustering
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...FILIBUSTERING FILIBUSTERING. To Americans of the 1840s and 50s, the term filibusters referred...private clandestine armies until the late 1840s, but historians have retroactively applied...heyday, however, took place during the 1840s and 50s — the era of "Manifest...
psychiatry
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...1808 and was more widely used in Europe and America from the 1840s. Medical interest and specialization in insanity was not new...in 1843, and somewhat earlier in Germany. In the 1820s to 1840s, medical interest in lunacy and therapeutic optimism were both...
public park
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Victoria Park, in the East End of London, by Pennethorne (early 1840s), Paxton 's parks at Birkenhead, Ches. (1843–...Sydenham (1852–8), and the Manchester parks (1840s) by Joshua Major (1787–1866). In the USA Downing...
Hotels and Hotel Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...frontier of settlement, rising over the prairies and plains in the 1840s and 1850s and appearing in the mountain West in the 1860s and...operations as constituting an integrated national system. In the 1840s, they embraced new theories and methods of hotel management...
Idaho
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Company and independent American trappers, which lasted into the 1840s. Fort Hall and Fort Boise were established as part of this...posts on the Oregon Trail. The rise of Oregon "fever" in the 1840s led 53,000 settlers to take the trail in the next two decades...
Nonferrous Metals
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the federal leasing policy existed in some form until the 1840s, the government agents experienced chronic difficulty in collecting rents and regulating smelters. By the end of the 1840s, the federal government had abandoned the leasing policy...
State Sovereignty
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...sovereignty became the accepted political theory until the 1830s and 1840s. The South Carolina politician John C. Calhoun became the...of state supremacy to nullify a federal tariff. During the 1840s and 1850s, Calhoun's doctrine became increasingly tied to...
Credit
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...funds. These institutions began operating in the East in the 1840s. They Moved into the Midwest in the early 1870s and to the...for long-term credit increased in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s as canal building dominated transportation firms, factory production...
Scott, Sir George Gilbert
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...schools that were published and widely copied in the 1830s and 1840s. By the end of 1835 Scott was practising on his own, but had...who did not recognize the validity of Lutheran Orders). The 1840s also saw Scott developing a career as a restorer of ecclesiastical...
Generational Conflict
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...feminist cause — from the Seneca Falls organizers in the 1840s to the woman's suffrage crusade in the 1910s, to the women...largely driven by the young. Again, between the 1820s and mid-1840s, young adults dominated the ranks of the Evangelicals who spearheaded...

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1840s return to Garfield Farm
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 6/21/2009; ; 520 words ; ...take the stage as Garfield Farm goes back to the 1840s. The historic farm will host "1840s Days" June 27-28 with tours, costumes and...Sites, is a restored farmstead established in the 1840s by early Fox Valley settler Timothy Garfield...
The Theatre Royal, York, in the 1840s
Magazine article from: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...nineteenth century, with the 1830s and 1840s seen as the nadir, before touring companies...1830s and of 'audience apathy' in the 1840s.1 This is echoed by Sybil Rosenfeld...with encouragement and support'. The 1840s were, she concludes, 'a poor period...
Garfield's 1840s Days reflects era when farm life was really
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 6/24/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...historic leap back another 170 years to 1840s farming before plumbing and electricity...Anything but. Garfield Farm Museum's 1840s Days The Garfield Farm Museum, which is a historically intact, 370-acre, former 1840s Illinois prairie farmstead and teamster...
Scrooge and Albert: Christmas in the 1840s.
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Christmas in the 1840s TODAY IT IS SOMEWHAT of a cliche to say...early in Victoria's reign, during the 1840s -- in the first full decade of her monarchy...influences were many and although in the 1840s the Christian faith was an important part...
Archeologists digging at foundations of Millville; 1840s settlement: Town was located in present-day Apple River Canyon State Park
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 10/20/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...seen the town of Millville. During the 1840s, Millville was the most important settlement...prosperity, during the mid- to late- 1840s, the town had the mill, a blacksmith...residents left during the Gold Rush of the late 1840s. Some moved north to what is now the Warren...
DICKENS OF A MEAL CHEFS RE-CREATING 1840S `CHRISTMAS CAROL' DINNER AT ALBANY'S MANSION HILL INN FIND SIMPLE, ABUNDANT FARE THE TICKET.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 12/11/1996; 700+ words ; ...holiday saga that was written in the 1840s after the Englishman's first visit to...Did a family in Upstate New York in the 1840s enjoy a December meal with food as carefully...off base with its salute to dining in the 1840s. Thanksgiving then was the celebrated...
RENEWING THE PAST COUPLE REVIVES HISTORIC HOUSE BUILT IN 1840S.(Home)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/22/1992; 700+ words ; ...from K mart," said Abbey of the late 1840s dwelling. For the past eight years, Abbey...progression of ages, beginning with the 1840s and up to the 1870s, when the last wing...the 1860s, and the lintels and sills are 1840s." Once the couple settled in, they began...
Famine's shadow ; Peter Behrens finds story wealth in Irish poverty of the 1840s famine.
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 12/31/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...finds story wealth in Irish poverty of the 1840s famine. Byline: RAY ROUTHIER Staff Writer...immigrants came through Montreal in the 1840s, including my great- great-grandfather...through Montreal during the Famine era, the 1840s. I don't know anything about him other...
DEEP THOUGHTS LURK HERE DIG PLUMBS 'UTOPIA' OF 1840S
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/21/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...for its seven short years of life in the 1840s by such literary giants as Henry David...painted by Josiah Wolcott in the mid-1840s and owned by the Massachusetts Historical...Wolcott's painting of Brook Farm in the 1840s. / MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY PHOTO...
In the Beginning: The Advent of the Modern Age, Europe in the 1840s.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...it he attempts to demonstrate that the 1840s were "the most amazing epoch the world...revolve around the "great men" of the 1840s whose ideas and activities Blum makes responsible...Blum breathes new life into events of the 1840s. His use of diaries and journals is especially...