Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny (1840-1862) The American West Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (began publishing in the 1840s) Edgar Allen Poe (also published in the 1840s) The Irish Potato Famine (1845-1851) The Donner Party (1846-47) The Mexican War (1846-1848) California Gold Rush (began 1848) Seneca Falls Convention and Early Feminists (1848) Compromise of 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne (published The Scarlet Letter in 1850) Herman Melville (published Moby Dick in 1851) American (Know-Nothing) Party The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) The Pony Express (founded in 1860) The Homestead Act (1862)