Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth U.S. President
(1865-1869)
Statehood
Nebraska (37 of 50 States) Admitted 1 March 1867, see 1876
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Education:
Morrill Act established Land-grant Industrial colleges to meet the needs of farmers and laborers to improve their social and economic status.
65 new land-grant colleges were established including:
University of Maine (1865)
University of Illinois (1867)
University of West Virginia (1867)
University of California (1868)
Purdue University (1869)
University of Nebraska (1869)
Ohio University (1870)
University of Arkansas (1871)
Texas A&M University (1871)
Source: Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition page 140-141 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010
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- Expansion:
Alaska Purchase
United States purchased Alaska from Russia for about 2 cents per acre.
Whale and walrus hunting in Southeast Alaska started in earnest. BBC Atlas of the Natural World North America "The First and Last Frontier."
Literature: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) took a five-month sea cruise in the Mediterranean
writing humorous articles about the sights for American newspapers.
Native Americans 1866-68:
Bozeman Trail war between U.S. and Plains Indians (Great Plains)
Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996
World Fair celebrating "History of the Earth"
Paris, France 1867
(1 April - 31 October)
1st of 6 World fairs held in Paris - 1867, 1878, 1889, 1900, 1925, 1937
Location: Champ de Mars (165 acres)
Architectural Wonder:
Oval
with hydraulic elevator to the roof
Participating nations: 32
Visitors: 6.8 million
Novelties: Artificial limbs,
the hydraulic elevator, reinforced concrete, the rocking chair
Mattie, Erik World's Fairs Princeton Architectural Press, 1998, New York: New York.
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