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| 1 | 1849-1850 | - 1849-1850: Zachary Taylor served as twelfth president of the United States of America.
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| 2 | 1850 | - 1850: Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter.
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| 3 | 1850-1853 | - 1850-1853: Millard Filmore serves as the thirteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 4 | 1851 | - 1851: Herman Melville writes Moby-Dick.
- 1851: Hawthorne writes The House of the Seven Gables.
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| 5 | 1852 | - 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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| 6 | 1853-1857 | - 1853-1857: Franklin Pierce serves as the fourteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 7 | 1854 | - 1854: Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
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| 8 | 1855 | - 1855: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
- 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
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| 9 | 1857-1861 | - 1857-1861: James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 10 | 1861-1865 | - 1861-1865: American Civil War
- 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln serves as the sixteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 11 | 1861 | - 1861: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
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| 12 | 1863 | - 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
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| 13 | 1865 | - 1865: Mark Twain writes "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
- 1865: Julia C. Collins writes The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride.
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| 14 | 1865-1869 | - 1865-1869: Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
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| 15 | 1867 | - 1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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