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THE AMERICAN MILEHistorical Events1826 -1875InternationalNationalStateCombined Local1826i. October 7, 1826 -The first railroad in the U S is completed in MA. The 3-mile track permits
smooth going for horse-drawn wagons carrying heavy blocks of granite from a quarry in Quincy to the Neponset River in Milton. The granite will be used for construction of the Bunker
Hill Monument (BH)18271.The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in New Orleans (BH) 2. Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm publish the first African American newspapers, Freedom's Journal
(JS) (3) Sulphur friction matches introduced (JC)18281. Congress deemed unconstitutional states right to intrepret and nullify federal laws states found to be uncontstitutional. (BH)18291.
Presidents Jackson's offer to purchase Texas from the Mexican government rejected. (BH) 2. Andrew Jackson began term as 7th U.S.PresidentIrish immigrants arrive in South Texas. (KE)18301.
President Andrew Jackson signs into law the Removal Act, which mandates all Indians to resettle west of the Mississippi (BH)Mexican government forbids further American colonization of
Texas and prohibits further importation of slaves (BH)1831Faraday discovered the means of producing electricity from magnetism, i.e., electromagnetic induction, the generation of an
electric field by a changing magnetic field. This is the principle of the dynamo (DS)1. Nat Turner led a slave insurrection in Southampton, Virginia in attempt to lead his people out
of slavery (BH) 1832Samuel Houston a former governor of Tenessee arrives in Texas -writes President Andrew Jackson of Texas' intent to draw up a constitution and seek statehood. (BH)18331.
John Deere makes first steel plow. 2. Colt revolver invented by Samuel Colt -patented in 1836 (BH) 3/31/20081:44 PMCopy of Amer Mile Sum 1826-1875 (b)
18341. Department of Indian Affairs established -facilitates moving Indians west of the Mississippi (BH)Stephen F. Austin is arrested and imprisioned in Mexico upon delivering resolves
to Mexican President Antionio Lopez de Santa Ana asking for separate statehood for Texas apart from California (BH)1835"Come and take it " skirmish & Texas Rangers officially established
(KE)1836Texas Declaration of Independence is adopted at Washington-on-the-Brazos & Siege of the Alamo & Runaway Scrape (KE) ????1837Telegraph was patented in England by Wheatstone and
Fothergill. (DS)1. Samuel F.B. Morse receives U.S. patent for his magnetic telegraph (demonstrated in 1838, his assistant Alfred Lewis Vail devised Morse Code. (BH) 2. Martin Van Buren
began term as 8th U.S. PresidentRepublic of Texas officially recognized by the United States (KE)18381. Trail of Tears -4,000 members of the Cherokee Nation dies as they are being relocated
west… reference Removal Act... (BH) 1839First bicycle -Scotland (JC)(1) Armistad Revolt (JS) (2) Army officer Abner Doubleday conducts first baseball game in Cooperstown (JC) (3) Charles
Goodyear -vulcanization of rubber (JC) (4) First electric clock (JC)18401841(1). U.S. Supreme Court ruled Armistad mutiny participants forced into slavery illegally and thus free under
American Law. (BH) (2). William Henry Harrison began term as 9th U.S. President & died within 3 months (3) John Tyler began term as 10th U.S. President after Harrison death.1. Brazos
County created out of Washington County and reorganized. Joan Glowski (RO) 2. One-hundred and fifty acres conveyed to Brazos County for the sum of $150.00 deeded for Boonville County
seat of Brazos County. Pg. 23. (RO) 3. January 13 – Citizens petition for creation of a new county. January 30 – Congress of the Republic of Texas designated the land between the rivers
as Navasota County. October – Boonville, named for Mordecai Boon, designated County Seat. (JC) 3/31/20081:44 PMCopy of Amer Mile Sum 1826-1875 (b)
18421843United States is warned by Mexico that any attempts to annex Texas will be considered an act of war. (BH)18441. Mexico severs (1844 or 1845) relations with the US following the
US Senate's ratificaiton of the annexation of Texas on March 1… ???verify... (BH)A slave girl named Jane sold for $600. A boy sold for $300. Pg. 104. (RO)1845James Knox Polk began term
as 11th U.S. PresidentTexas became a state on December 29th, and recognized as a slave state. (KE)1846William Morton demonstrated the effective use of ether as an anesthesia (DS)International
boundary set between Mexico and Texas (KE)1. New courthouse (2nd) built for $150.00, an 18 x 26 foot structure of oak timbers. The building was used for political rallies, church services,
school and social gatherings. Pg. 23. 2. Daniel Moseley began a public ferry on the Brazos River at the west end of OSR. Pg. 54. (RO)1847(1) 7/24 The first Mormons reach the Great Salt
Lake (JS) (2) U.S. forces capture Mexico City (JC)1848 1. Gold is dicovered on Johann A. Sutter's property near Coloma, California spurring the California Gold Rush. (BH)Houston and
Texas Central Railroad chartered. (JC)1849(1) Elizabeth Blackwell became first woman physician in the U.S.??? (BH) (2) Zachary Taylor began term as 12th U.S. President1850Millard Fillmore
began term as 13th U.S. President(1) 1850 Census reports Brazos Co population is 614. (JS) (2) Brazos County had 148 Slaves. Pg. 104. (RO) (3) 1850-1864 first wave of Germans came to
Brazos county. (RO)18511. Patent fo sewing machine granted to Isaac Merrit Singer (BH)Jan. 27 -Harvey Mitchell appointed postmaster at Boonville… verify reappointment… (JS)18521. Uncle
Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe published, selling 300,000 copies in three months. (BH) 2. Wells Fargo & Co. founded 3/31/20081:44 PMCopy of Amer Mile Sum 1826-1875 (b)
1853Franklin Pierce began term as 14th U.S. PresidentTexas steamboat captain Richard King buys and establishes King Ranch -buying 15,500 acres for $300 -2 cents per acre. Stocked with
longhorns for $5 a head during a drought. (BH)18541. Brazos River reached stage of 51 feet. Pg. 61 (RO) 2. Henry Kurten bought half of Isaiah Curd’s Mexican Land Grant for the purpose
of bringing settlers to Texas. Pg. 27.(RO)1855(1) Florence Nightingale introduces hygienic standards in military hospital -Crimean War (JC) (2) Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass
(JS)1856(1) John Brown led a raid against pro-slavery settlement in Kansas (BH) (2) Big Ben Bell cast at White Chapel (JC) ????1857Louis Pasteur demonstrated that lactic acid fermentation
is carried out by living bacteria. His discoveries are extremely important to modern medicine and should be shown somewhere in the timeline (DS)(1) Dred Scott Case -Drec Scott v. ____
living in a free territory did not make a black free, that a black may not bring a suit to federal court, that Congress never had the authority to ban slavery in the territories -in
effect ruling the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional. (BH) (2) James Buchanan began term as 15th U.S. President18581. First telegraphy line across the floor of the Atlantic
Ocean was completed largely through efforts of American merchant Cyrus West Field. (BH) 1859World first successful oil well struck in Titusville, Pennsylvania -opening a new inexpensive
source of power (BH)Townsite of Bryan laid out along proposed railroad route. Land set aside for courthouse, school and Methodist Church. (JC)18601. Town site of Bryan is named after
William Joel Bryan, nephew of Stephen F. Austin who sold his interest to Abarm Groesbeck & W. R. Baker. Pg. 3. (RO) 2. H & T C Railroad arrives in Millican, the northernmost terminus
of the railroad. Pg. 3. (RO) 3. Brazos County produced 2269 bales of cotton. Pg. 68 (RO) 4. 1860 Census reports Brazos Co populationis2,776(JS) 3/31/20081:44 PMCopy of Amer Mile Sum
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18611. 1860-1861 -Eleven pro-slavery southern states secede from Union and form Confederate States of America under leadership of Jefferson Davis, triggering civil war with abolitionist
northern states. (JY) 2. Abraham Lincoln began term as 16th U.S. President 3. Beginning of Civil War (BH)1. Brazos County votes overwhelmingly in favor of secession from the Union, 215
to 55. Pg. 85. (RO) 2. Brazos County contributed 1st body of men to Confederate Service forming part of Company F. Pg. 86. (RO)1862Louis Pasteur published the 'germ theory:': Infection
is caused by self-replicating microorganisms, and that attenuated viral cultures granted immunity. These beneficent antigens he named 'vaccines' in honor of Jenner and his vaccinia virus
(DS)July 2 -Approval by President Abraham Lincoln of the Morrill Land-Grant Act, donating public lands to the several states for collegs to benefit agriculture and the mechanic arts
(JS)18631. Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, calling the Union army to liberate all slaves in states still in rebellion. (BH)2. Brazos County suffered the first casualty of the
Civil War from Company I, Private T. Johnson Mawhinney. Pg. 87.(RO)1864(1) 3/10 Ulysses S. Grant assumes command of the Union Army (JS) (2) Gen. Sherman’s march to the sea -Atlanta (JC)
(3) In God We Trust appears on U.S. coins (JC) (4) Geneva Convention establishes neutrality of battlefield medical facilities (JC)1865Alfred Nobel patented kiselguhr, or dynamite, in
Sweden (DS)1. President Abraham Lincoln killed from bullet wound inflicted by John Wilkes Booth (BH) 2. Dec 18th 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constituion ratified, "Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, save as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist in the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
(BH) 3. Andrew Johnson began term 1866as17thUSPresident1. Civil Rights Act of 1866: established civil rights for everyone except Indians and established punishment for anyone preventing
free exercise of rights -followed by the 14th Amendment that forbade states from "depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law." (BH)(1) County
seat moved from Boonville to Bryan by order of Commissioners Court on Nov. 3, 1866. Pg. 25. (2.) Courthouse sold from Boonville and building moved to area later known as Harvey. At that
time it was known as Bethel because of Bethel Church. The community was named Harvey in 1879 in honor of Harvey Mitchell. Pg. 39 (RO) (3) Acceptance by the Texas Legislature of the provisions
of the Morrill Act. (JC) 3/31/20081:44 PMCopy of Amer Mile Sum 1826-1875 (b)
1867(1) Wellborn established from railroad construction camp of H&TC. Pg. 37. (RO) (2) Railroad reaches Bryan. (3) Shiloh settled by Czech immigrants. (JC) 1868U.S. Senate hold impeachment
trial for President Andrew Jackson -he was acquitted by one vote… the only impeachment to go to trial. (BH)1. Race riots occurred in Millican in July. Pg. 3. Need more info (RO) 1869(1)
May 10 the ceremonial Golden spike was driven to indicate the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad connecting the east coast and west coast of the USA. (DS) (2) Ulysses Simpson
Grant began term as 18th U.S. President1870Texas readmitted into the Union (BH)2. Italians began to settle in flood prone Brazos River Bottom in Brazos County. Pg. 14. (RO)1871State
of Texas ratified articles of incorporation for the City of Bryan (BH)(1) April 17. Establishment of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas by act of the Texas Legislature.
Appropriations of $75,000 for buildings. (JC) (2) June 20 -Location of the college in Brazos Co., on a site of 2,416 acres donated by citizens of the county. (JC)1872Bryan incorporated???
Check (JC)1873First "Buffalo Soldiers" are posted to Texas (KE)1. Polish arrived in Brazos co. for the first time. (RO)1874Barbed wire invented by Thaddeus F. Gliddne revolutionized
life on the Great Plains (BH)1875June 1 -First meeting of the original Board of Directors of the A&M College. Gov. Richard Coke, ex officio chairman. The first building for the new Agricultural
& Mechanical College of Texas is completed. It would be known as "Old Main". $32,000 appropriated for the erection of a Mess Hall for the A&M College. (JC) 3/31/20081:44 PMCopy of Amer
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