Word: 1850s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel about themselves functioning in America. Thus in the 19th century every imaginable interest group claimed superior nativity. Businessmen denounced unionists as alien anarchists; each generation of naturalized immigrants scorned each later wave of "foreigners," notably Roman Catholics, victims of outrageous persecution by the nativist Know-Nothings of the 1850s. Just before the Civil War, slavery apologists attributed to themselves the one true Americanism; some Southerners wanted to claim the Stars and Stripes as their own flag...
...prominence lasted little more than a decade, but while it did Frederic Edwin Church caught the imagination of the American public as no other U.S. painter had before. In the 1850s, his eloquent flair for embodying the nation's grand notion of "manifest destiny" made his paintings public events. On one day alone in 1857, Horace Greeley, George Bancroft, George Ripley, Henry Ward Beecher and Charles A. Dana were among the crowds that filed past Church's Niagara. Two years later, the throngs that flocked to his studio to see The Heart of the Andes were so dense...
American colonists used Indian trails at first, eventually widened them and straightened them as part of a network of quagmire-pocked coach roads connecting major cities along the East Coast. Not until the late 1850s, when Congress appropriated $550,000 for three wagon roads, did anyone going West from the Mississippi River have anything but trackless prairies to drive on. From then on, road networks spread like spider webs across the U.S. In 1904 the U.S. Office of Road Inquiry took a national highway census that showed 2,000,000 miles of roads, just 250 miles of them paved...
Cunning as well as courageous, the stallions kept plenty of grass between manada and man, but during the 1850s the mustangers multiplied, and the odds in favor of the animals were disastrously reduced, Some were roped, some stampeded into pens, some "walked down" by patient riders who followed the herd for a week or two and imperceptibly and gradually assumed control of its movements...
KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Ann Blyth stars as a Chinese empress stranded in Panama in the 1850s and pursued by a general who wants to kill her son. Color...