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| 1848 |
| | | Two New York girls, Maggie and Katie Fox, claim to be in touch with the spirit of a murdered man, thus launching the modern cult of spiritualism | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The Wilmot Proviso is defeated in the US Senate, heightening north-south tensions on the issue of slavery | |
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| 1848 |
| | | With Wisconsin admitted as the 30th state, the western boundary of the USA now runs from Lake Superior to the Rio Grande | |
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| 1848 |
| | | US feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organize a convention on women's rights in Seneca Falls, New York | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Oh! Susannah is in the first published collection of popular songs by Stephen Collins Foster | |
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| 1848 |
| | | A utopian community dedicated to the sharing of both property and sexual favours is established by John Humphrey Noyes near Oneida, New York | |
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| 1848 |
| | | In a three-cornered US presidential election Whig candidate Zachary Taylor defeats Democrat Lewis Cass and the Free-Soil party's Martin van Buren | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail, already serialized in 1847, is published in book form | |
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| 1849 |
| | | An anti-British mob attacks the New York theatre where William Macready is appearing as Macbeth, leaving 22 dead and many injured | |
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| 1849 |
| | | The gold rush to California gathers pace during 1849, causing the prospectors to become known as 'forty-niners' | |
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