1840
Victoria's early reign
1840 is the year, used attributively to evoke the era of early Victorian society, American westward expansion, or pre-Civil War politics: an 1840 farmhouse, the election of 1840.
In measurements, 1840 may indicate a quantity, address, or identification number: 1840 pounds, 1840 Oak Street.
Of a prim era
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- 1800sYears from 1800-1899
- decadeTen-year span
- centuryHundred-year span
Regency · nineteenth century · year · timestamp · milestone · period · epoch
Transition to factory-based economy
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- railroadsTrain transportation systems
- telegraphElectrical message system
- factoriesIndustrial production facilities
cotton mills · iron works · coal mining · canals · clipper ships · daguerreotype · mechanization · textile mills
- Queen VictoriaLong-reigning British empress
- BrontëLiterary sisters' surname
- ThackerayWrote satirical fiction
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
transcendentalism · penny dreadfuls · daguerreotype · pianoforte · parlors · gaslight · etiquette · gentility
Movement to end oppression
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
treaties · Oregon Trail · Whig · Tory · suffrage · temperance · anti-slavery · colonialism
First to explore territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
- frontierEdge of settlement
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
- Oregon TrailEmigrant route westward
westward expansion · wagon trains · homesteaders · trappers · wilderness · surveying · mapping
Victorian
Of a prim era
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- 1800sYears from 1800-1899
- decadeTen-year span
century · Regency · nineteenth century · year · timestamp · milestone · period · epoch
industrialization
Transition to factory-based economy
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- railroadsTrain transportation systems
- telegraphElectrical message system
factories · cotton mills · iron works · coal mining · canals · clipper ships · daguerreotype · mechanization · textile mills · steamships
Charles Dickens
- Queen VictoriaLong-reigning British empress
- BrontëLiterary sisters' surname
- ThackerayWrote satirical fiction
Romanticism · transcendentalism · penny dreadfuls · daguerreotype · pianoforte · parlors · gaslight · etiquette · gentility · carriages
abolitionism
Movement to end oppression
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
annexation · treaties · Oregon Trail · Whig · Tory · suffrage · temperance · anti-slavery · colonialism · empire
pioneers
First to explore territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
- frontierEdge of settlement
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
Oregon Trail · westward expansion · wagon trains · homesteaders · trappers · wilderness · surveying · mapping