1869
Post-Civil War era
1869 is the year following 1868 and preceding 1870.
Like other year numbers, it functions as a noun identifying a specific point in time: The transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.
Years appear in dates, historical references, and vintage descriptions: an 1869 bottle of wine.
Manmade strait through Egypt
- telegraphElectrical message system
- dynamitePowerful blasting compound
- periodic tableSystematic display of elements
- MendeleevChemist who systematized elements
antiseptics · typewriter · celluloid · vacuum cleaner · professional baseball
Spanning an entire continent
- golden spikeCompletion marker for railroads
- Union PacificMajor American freight railroad
- Central PacificRailroad from California eastward
- steam locomotiveRail engine burning fuel for motion
westward expansion · frontier · settlers · Homestead Act · land grants · commerce · trade routes · immigrants
- War and PeaceOpposing states of nations
- ImpressionismArt movement emphasizing light
- MonetFrench Impressionist surname
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Richard Wagner · Jules Verne · Louisa May Alcott
People released from slavery
- Radical RepublicansStrict Reconstruction-era congressional bloc
- sharecroppingFarm rent in produce
- carpetbaggersOutsiders exploiting local turmoil
- scalawagsPlayful troublemakers
Ulysses S. Grant · suffrage · segregation · Ku Klux Klan · disenfranchisement · poll tax · literacy test · grandfather clause
Long-reigning British empress
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
Charles Dickens · corsets · top hats · gaslight · carriages · penny dreadfuls · gentility · crinoline
Suez Canal
Manmade strait through Egypt
- telegraphElectrical message system
- dynamitePowerful blasting compound
- periodic tableSystematic display of elements
Mendeleev · antiseptics · typewriter · celluloid · vacuum cleaner · professional baseball
transcontinental
Spanning an entire continent
- golden spikeCompletion marker for railroads
- Union PacificMajor American freight railroad
- Central PacificRailroad from California eastward
steam locomotive · westward expansion · frontier · settlers · Homestead Act · land grants · commerce · trade routes · immigrants · Chinese laborers
Leo Tolstoy
- War and PeaceOpposing states of nations
- ImpressionismArt movement emphasizing light
- MonetFrench Impressionist surname
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Richard Wagner · Jules Verne · Louisa May Alcott
freedmen
People released from slavery
- Radical RepublicansStrict Reconstruction-era congressional bloc
- sharecroppingFarm rent in produce
- carpetbaggersOutsiders exploiting local turmoil
scalawags · Ulysses S. Grant · suffrage · segregation · Ku Klux Klan · disenfranchisement · poll tax · literacy test · grandfather clause · plantations
Queen Victoria
Long-reigning British empress
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- moralityRight and wrong principles
Charles Dickens · etiquette · corsets · top hats · gaslight · carriages · penny dreadfuls · gentility · crinoline · parasols