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The overall energy of the decade was
mid-ranged. The
Physical Cycle
was High for half of the decade and Low for the second half after a Downward
Crossover in 1845. An
Emotional
Cycle Low ended its 4th Quarter
Alternatives with an Upward Crossover in 1847 which sent it into a new 1st
Foundation. A High for the
Intellectual Cycle
ended early with Downward Crossover in 1841 that left in 3rd Quarter Reform for
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March 21, 1840 - |
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March 21, 1841 |
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1840:
The first steamship line with scheduled transatlantic sailings,
established by Samuel Cunard, came at this Physical
Peak.
While were in
Emotional
4th Quarter Alternatives
Transcendentalists
emerged in philosophy, literature a communities. In
Intellectual 2nd Quarter Improvement
the Independent Treasury Act became law to grant
government exclusive responsibility over its own funds and provides for
government depositories to hold funds. |
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March 21, 1842 |
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1841:
Coke, a coal product,
was manufactured in Pennsylvania this year and band the earliest
commercial use of oil, "Tock oil" also began in Pennsylvania began about
this time while we were in a
Physical High.
With the
Emotional
4th Quarter Alternatives
came the
Brook Farm
in Massachusetts
founded by George Ripley, a Unitarian and Transcendentalist, as an
alternative community based on a cooperative program and an economy of
farming and handcraft.
Whigs denounced President Tyler in the
Intellectual Downward Crossover of 1841/42
and the entire cabinet except Webster resigned.
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March 21, 1843 |
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1842:
Exploration and migration expanded in the Physical
High as Colonel John
C. Fremont began a four-year expedition to explore the Rocky Mountains in
southern Wyoming, and, a major party of 130 people in 18 wagons headed for
the Oregon territory from Independence, Missouri setting they way for
settlers who began a great migration over Oregon Trail the following year.
Showman Edwin P. Christy founded the Christy Minstrels in the .. Citizens in the
northeastern Massachusetts town of Haverhill have John Quincy Adams in January,
1842, to submit a petition to Congress requesting the peaceful dissolution of
the Union in this
Intellectual Downward Crossover of 1841/42 -
Emotional
4th Quarter Alternatives. |
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March 21, 1844 |
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1843:
President Tyler sent a diplomatic representative to Hawaii as we
were in a Physical High
after
Daniel Webster advised him the
year before to take a stand which prompted him to send a message to Congress
that the US would not approve of any power attempting control of the islands.
Edgar Allen Poe published
his short stories "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Pit and
the Pendulum," and "The Tell-Tale Heart" as dark tales with a touch of horror in
this Physical High
-
Emotional
Low.
Daniel Webster became the last cabinet member assigned by former President
Harrison to resign as the nation was in
Intellectual 3rd Quarter Review. |
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March 21, 1785 |
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1844:
With the
Physical 2nd Quarter Improvement
iron replaced wood on railroad tracks. The
Fruitlands Utopian Community
began near Harvard, Massachusetts as an alternative community during this
Emotional
4th Quarter Alternatives.
Victorian Rococo furniture styles catch on in the US after they
are introduced by German-born furniture maker, John Henry Belter, in the
Intellectual 3rd Quarter Review. |
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March 21, 1845 - |
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March 21, 1846 |
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1845:
President Polk sent 3,000 troop to Mexico after the Physical High
entered a
Physical Downward Crossover.
The Walden Experiment
was conducted by Henry David Thoreau during this
Emotional
4th Quarter Alternatives.
The first public
attempt to remove a tooth painlessly from a patent amnestied with nitrous oxide
(laughing gas) by
Connecticut dentist, Horace Wells, failed in the
Intellectual
Low
because because he began the procedure before the patient was completely
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March 21, 1847 |
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1846:
Michigan becomes first state to
abolish capital punishment and enforcement lessened in the
Physical Low.
The Seventh-Day Adventists split from the Adventist Church
in the
Emotional
4th Quarter Alternatives
to vary toward legalism and Sabbatarianism and other changes.
Gothic revivalism,
neo-Greco, and Romanesque architecture emerged during the
Intellectual 3rd Quarter Review.
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March 21, 1848 |
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1847:
Now the the nation was in a
Physical Low
Abraham
Lincoln made his first speech in the House of Representative in which he sharply
disagreed with President Polk over the Mexican War. After Captain John C.
Fremont was found guilty of mutiny, disobedience and prejudicial conduct and
dismissed form the army in the
Emotional
Downward Crossover of 1847/48,
President Polk approves most of the sentence, omitting mutiny, but restored
Fremont to duty, but Fremont eventually resigned and the situation caused
opposition between Polk and Senator Thomas Hart Benton, who is Fremont’s
father-in-law. The cornerstone of
the Smithsonian Institute was laid in Washington, DC. during this
Physo-Intellectual
Double 3rd Quarter Review in what became America's
greatest archive of the past. |
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March 21, 1848 - |
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March 21, 1849 |
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1848:
During the
Physical Low
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Emotional
High the
free soil party formed in opposition to slavery. The Modern feminist
movement began with the Women's Rights Convention New York in the Emotional High
while the nation was in
Emotional
1st Quarter Foundation.
Elizabeth Ellet authored her 2-volume work: “Women of the
American Revolution” in the
Intellectual 3rd Quarter Review. |
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March 21, 1950 |
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1849:
Thoreau advocated
"Civil Disobedience" as passive resistance to Mexican War in
the
Physical Low.
The California gold rush came after gold was discovered in 1848 and
unbridled enthusiasm ran wild in the
Emotional
High.
The American economy was heading toward a period of business decline and failure
in the
Physo-Intellectual
Low. |
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