| Date |
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Politics and Empire |
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Art and Literature |
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| 1830 |
President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, forcing Native Americans living
east of the Mississippi to move to the West.
Death of George IV; accession of William IV |
Birth of Albert Bierstadt in Solingen, Germany |
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| 1832 |
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George Catlin makes the first of three journeys to the West to study American Indian nations |
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| 1833 |
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Francis Danby's The Opening of the Sixth Seal shown at the American Academy of the Fine Arts, New York |
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| 1834 |
Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire |
William Cullen Bryant, The Prairies |
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| 1835 |
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Wealthy New York grocer Luman Reed commissions The Course of Empire series from Thomas Cole |
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| 1836 |
Formation of the Republic of Texas |
Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire exhibited at the National Academy of Design, New York |
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| 1837 |
US recognises the Republic of Texas. Coronation of Queen Victoria |
Birth of Thomas Moran in Bolton, Lancashire. Death of John Constable |
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| 1838 |
'The Trail of Tears' (to 1839): Cherokees moved west from Georgia to 'Indian Territory' (now Oklahoma) |
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| 1840 |
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Foundation of the American Art Union |
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| 1843 |
Oregon Trail opens, carrying traffic from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean |
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| 1844 |
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Thomas Moran moves to the US. Frederic Church begins 2 years as a student of Thomas Cole |
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| 1845 |
US annexes Texas |
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| 1846 |
US signs treaty with Britain to obtain the Oregon Territory. Outbreak of the Mexican War |
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| 1848 |
Treaty ending the Mexican War gives U.S. Texas, California, New Mexico and other territories in the south west. Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, near Sacramento, California |
Sudden death of Thomas Cole |
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| 1849 |
80,000 people ('forty-niners') rush to California in search of gold, some illegally crossing into Indian Territory en route |
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