The discovering of gold in California in 1848 was the next-most important event to occur. After the discovery, thousands of gold-seekers flooded into the area. ... The decision by the Republicans to nominate Abraham Lincoln instead of William Seward as their presidential nominee in 1860. ...
A second example is the colony of Pennsylvania, which was founded by an English man named William Penn. ... The rum was then shipped from New England to the West Indies where slave ships that had disposed of their human cargo, took rum to Gold Coast of Africa, then the slaves were transported via Middle Passage back to the colonies. ...
The Bank of the U.S. controlled much of the nation's gold and silver. ... Members of the Knickerbocker Group include Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant. ... William Cullen Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis," which was one of the first high-quality poems produced in the United States. ...
