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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 1 1 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 1 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
rth and maturity of which seems like a strange dream. All had been accomplished within twenty months from the time when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill. Under this constitution John Charles Fremont (q. v.), and William Gwin (q. v.) were chosen by the State legislature United States Senators. Edward Gilbert and G. H. Wright were elected to the House of Representatives. When Fremont and Gwynn went to Washington, they took the State constitution with them, and presented a petition (February, 1850) asking for the admission of California into the Union as a free and independent State. The article in its constitution which excluded slavery became a cause of violent debate in Congress and of bitter feeling in the South against the people of the North. The Union, so strong in the hearts of the people, was shaken to its centre. Mr. Clay again appeared as a compromiser for the sake of peace and union. It seemed that some compromise was needed to avoid serious difficulty, for already
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho (search)
m Lincoln elected to Congress......1846 Convention meets at Springfield, June 7, 1847, and completes a constitution, Aug. 31, which is adopted by the people, 59,887 to 15,859, and takes effect......April 1, 1848 Illinois and Michigan Canal, begun in 1836, opened......April 16, 1848 Bloody Island dike built at East St. Louis......1848 Jefferson Davis challenges Col. W. H. Bissell, afterwards governor, to a duel; he accepts the challenge, but the matter is amicably settled......February, 1850 Geological survey authorized by act of......Feb. 17, 1851 Law providing that any negro or mulatto, bond or free, who comes into the State and remains ten days may be fined $50 or sold into slavery until the fine is worked out......Feb. 12, 1853 Act passed incorporating the State Agricultural Society......1853 Illinois Wesleyan University, at Bloomington, chartered and opened......1853 Hon. N. W. Edwards appointed State superintendent of common schools......March 15, 1854