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| South America & Caribbean:Mexico breaks relations with the United States. Peru's three year civil war ends in dictatorship | |||||||||||
| North America: Florida admitted as the 27th state. The Senate votes to annex Texas. Americans claim Oregon territory up to Alaska border, but two border disputes are too much for President Polk. Texas becomes the 28th state. Portland founded in Oregon territory. John C. Fremont is on his third expedition to the west coast. Methodist Episcopal church splits over slave question. Scientific American begins publication. United States Naval Academy, Baylor University established. Margaret Fuller writes; Edgar Allan Poe; painting by George Caitlin. Wire Cable suspension bridge at Pittsburgh. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Potato crops are failing in Ireland and across Europe killing over 2 million Freiderich Engels writes on conditions of English working class.The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; Charles Dickens; Benjamin Disraeli; Robert Browning; music by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Richard Wagner. Opium derivative laudanum is commonly used to pacify British children. | |||||||||||
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May 14 The Constiturional Convention of 1845 - Commercial interests found this constitution too restrictive. It limited the right of the legislature to borrow money, placed a prohibition against public funds for internal improvements, forbid the legislature to charter banks and limited corporations to 25 years. Democrats supported these restrictions. The voters sought a constitutional change to extend reforms begun in 1845, while Governor Joseph Marshall Walker and Democrats wanted to use slower process of constitutional amendments. |
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Edward Douglas White Jr., who is born in Thibodaux, La. (1845), will serve as Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court for twenty seven years. |
Plantation of Louis Allard acquired by John McDonough - given to New Orleans in 1850. The Allard Plantation in New Orleans was purchased by Allard’s grandfather, Don Santiago Lorreins in the 1770s from the estate of Francisco Hery, called Duplanty, builder of the first Cabildo Building. | The Harvey Canal, originally Destrehan Canal, dug before 1845, connects the Mississippi River to Bayou Barataria. A Submarine Railway lifted boats over the levee until successful completion of locks in 1907. Became part of Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in 1924. |
Armand Lanusse, 33, (1812-1868) is the editor of Les Cenelles , Choix de Poesies Indigenes, a collection of African-American poetry, written in French, which represents the culture of free people of color. Considering that education, let alone literature, was extremely rare among American blacks of the 1840s the publication of this book of 85 poems by seventeen different free men of color is a remarkable testimonial to the difference in culture between New Orleans and the rest of the South. Les cenelles are the bright red berries of the hawthorn. Most of the city’s free people of color were mulatto, francophile, Catholic and a tight-knit community which married among them selves. They enjoyed most of the legal and economic rights of whites. They could own property, including slaves, buy and sell, make contracts, lend or borrow money, practice their trades and professions, marry legally, testify in court and receive an education. They could not vote or serve on a jury, legally marry a white person and segregated areas existed in public places. In other states the danger to a free black of being unjustly enslaved was very real. In 1810 by Adelle vs. Beauregard the presumption that mulattos were free unless proven otherwise had been established and the constant carrying of manumission papers was not necessary. Joanni Questi (1817-1869); Camille Thierry (1814-1875) are two of the poets. |
State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy is provided for by the Constitution of 1845 with funds from Federal land grants. Opened, 1860; closed during Civil War; reopened, 1865, burned, 1869; moved to Institute for Deaf, Dumb, Blind, Baton Rouge. It became Louisiana State University in 1870. | Florent and A. Septime Fortier, brothers, acquire the Richbend plantation in St. James Parish. The brothers married the daughters of Valcour Aime whose plantation adjoined theirs. |
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