New England

Place Unit Type
Region
Containing Unit
United States of America
Date Type
- A huge winter storms blankets New England. Crime/Disasters
- Abundant rains deluge many northern states Crime/Disasters
An early thaw causes heavy ice damage and severe flooding along the riverbanks of New England Crime/Disasters
An exceptionally large and bright meteor streaks across the northern areas of the United States Science/Technology
- Heavy snowstorm in New York City and across the north-eastern United States Crime/Disasters
- Spring tides and high winds cause flooding and subsidence along the Hudson River in New York Crime/Disasters
Date Title
Debate Over Increase of the Army, House of Representatives, January 9, 1847
New York Herald, “Mr. Clay's Compromise, and the Cabinet,” February 1, 1850
New York Herald, “The Kansas Question and the Anti-Slavery Disorganizers,” May 15, 1855
New Orleans (LA) Picayune, "Runaways in Canada," August 9, 1856
New York Times, “The Convention of the Southern New School Presbyterians,” August 31, 1857
New York Times, “Another Failure,” September 11, 1857
New York Times, “Mormonism in the East,” September 19, 1857
New York Times, "The Missing Walker," December 14, 1857
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "Bad State of Things," September 20, 1858
New York Herald, “The Present Congress and the Next President,” January 17, 1859
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “A Hand Writing on the Wall,” March 11, 1859
Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Convention of Colored Citizens,” August 2, 1859
New York Times, “The Slave Trade,” August 10, 1859
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “The Slave Trade at the North,” August 11, 1859
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “What is thought at the North of the New Ultimatum,” August 15, 1859
Richmond (VA) Dispatch, “The Madness of Brown,” October 25, 1859
Boston (MA) Liberator, "Bad News for the Abolitionists," November 11, 1859
New York Times, “The Senatorial Inquisition,” February 11, 1860
Raleigh (NC) Register, “How Firmly United the Democracy Are,” February 22, 1860
New York Herald, “Northern White Slaves and Southern Black Ones,” March 4, 1860
Newark (OH) Advocate, “Waking Up to Their Danger,” April 20, 1860
New York Herald, “Extraordinary Activity of the Slave Trade,” May 22, 1860
(Jackson) Mississippian, “Kansas in the Senate,” May 23, 1860
George Ashmun to Abraham Lincoln, June 18, 1860
Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, "Who Are For Disunion?," August 8, 1860
New York Herald, “Massachusetts Thoroughly Abolitionized,” September 7, 1860
New York Herald, “Coercion Symptoms in the West and North-West,” January 15, 1861
Alexander J. Sessions to Abraham Lincoln, April 16, 1861
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Lying Dexterity,” May 14, 1861
Stephen A. Douglas' New England Campaign, 1860
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