Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1882 — History Class, Attention! [ARTICLE]

History Class, Attention!

Name some of the most important events that have happened in American history: 1620. Landing made on Plymouth Rock. 162 L First Thanksgiving kept No turkey. 1622. First meeting-house built. 1640. First printing press. 1648. Witches first hung. 1649. Men are commanded to wear short hair. 1662. More witches hung in Salem. 1702. Yale College founded in New Haven. 1704. First newspaper printed at Boston. 1705. Coffee is tasted. 1710. Tea is tried, but taxation makes it costly. 1711. Postoffice started. 1721. Potatoes planted as a curiosity. Singing by note in the meetinghouses, which caused a great deal of trouble. 1740. Tinware manufactured. 1755. An organ built, but not allowed to be played in the meetinghouse. 1756. Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod. 1760. First attempt at fashion. Collars are worn on shirts and chaises ap- * pear. 1765. Liberty talked of. No more using of stamped paper. 1770. Wooden clocks made. 1773. Troable begins about tea; chests of it thrown into Boston harbor. 1774. The streets of Boston are lighted with oil-lamps. 1780. Umbrellas used by a few rich people, and laughed at. 1792. Silk worms raised, and in few houses silk carpets are seen. 1795-1800. Pantaloons take the place of breeches for ordinary wear, and plates are used at breakfast and tea. 1807. A steamboat on the Hudson.

1817. Stoves first appear in meetinghouses, although some think they showed more fire than religion. 1818. A steamboat on Long Island Sound. 1819. A steamer goes across the Atlantic. 1823. Gas in Boston. Coal. Steel pens take the place of quills. 1823. Ruffles disappeared from shirt fronts. 1828. Love apples are tasted hesitatingly, but are found novel and palatable, and are called tomatoes and used as a vegetable. 1832. A railroad built. 1833. Matches used instead of the tinder-box. 1837. First paper money used, called shin-plasters. 1838. Envelopes first used. 1839. Daguerreotypes are taken. 1814. First electric message sent. 1847. Sewing machines invented. 1858. Ocean cable laid. Only one message sent for about ten years. 1861. Quarrel between North and South breaks out. Monitors built, lots of paper money used and years spent in fighting. 1865. Abraham Lincoln assassinated. 1871. Chicago burded. 1876. Party in Philadelphia called the “Centennial.” 1877. Silver coming into use again. 1881. Garfield assassinated.