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Baldwin Locomotive Works and Philadelphia Glee Association [34] established. 1833 August: third annual Convention for the Improvement of the Free People of Color, Philadelphia [35] December: American Anti-Slavery Society organized. [5] 1834 – Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad and Merchants' Exchange Building constructed.
The 1834 Philadelphia race riot, also known as the Flying Horses riot, [1] [2] was an instance of communal violence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The riot, in which a mob of several hundred white people attacked African Americans living in the area, began on the evening of August 12 and lasted for several days, dying down by August 14.
1834 – Slavery debates at Lane Theological Seminary are one of the first major public discussions of the topic. 1835 – Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America published. 1835 – Second Seminole War begins in Florida as members of the Seminole tribe resist relocation. 1836 – Creek War of 1836; 1836 – Samuel Colt invents the revolver.
Events in the 1850s culminated with the election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president on November 6, 1860. This provoked the first round of state secession as leaders of the cotton states of the Deep South were unwilling to remain in what they perceived as a second-class political status, with their way of life now ...
The following is a partial list of riots and protests involving violent disorder that have occurred in Philadelphia: 1704 Riot of Young Gentry in Philadelphia [1] 1715 riot by supporters of Reverend Francis Phillips, who had been arrested for stating he had slept with three prominent local women [2] 1726 riot against pillory and stocks [3]
Events from the year 1834 in the United States. Main post roads 1834, mapped 1933. Incumbents ... Timeline of United States history (1820–1859) References
March 1834 (United States) National Trades' Union formed in New York when the New York General Trades' Union solicited labor organizations from around the country to send delegates to a national convention. [8] This union was the first attempt to create a national labor federation. [6] 1834 (United States) Lowell, Massachusetts Mill Women's ...
Pennsylvania Hall, "one of the most commodious and splendid buildings in the city," [2] was an abolitionist venue in Philadelphia, built in 1837–38.It was a "Temple of Free Discussion", where antislavery, women's rights, and other reform lecturers could be heard. [3]