Word: 1840s
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When Mormon scouts wandered through the Bear River Valley of southwestern Wyoming in the 1840s, they found oil flowing into streams and used it to grease the axles of their wagons. But it was not until 1974, when a deep pool of oil was tapped at Pineview Field outside the small town of Evanston, that the rush began...
...urban industrial North seized power from the agrarian South in a "second American revolution." Through cliometrics, says the University of Pittsburgh's Samuel Hays, historians have analyzed such production figures as railroad mileage and steel output, and found that the "takeoff points" occurred earlier, in the 1840s and early '50s. Cliometricians also use voting data to learn, say, the cultural differences between Republicans and Democrats. (Ethnic and religious divisions turn out to be more important than arguments over economic issues...
Vonnegut was the main speaker at a Cambridge Forum celebrating the 200th birthday of William Ellery Channing, a Cambridge minister who led abolitionist movements in the 1840s...