Quotes About 1830s

A willingness to wage constant partisan combat, no matter what the issue, was an emerging requirement in the politics coming into being in the 1830s. Party

By the late 1830s, Indianapolis reformers were boasting of sober Fourth of July celebrations, though some of Fort Wayne's leading citizens, including directors of the branch bank and members of the local temperance society, were carried home drunk on election day in 1836.

it was a more auspicious time for an American banker than it had been when Peabody was flogging the hated Maryland bonds in the 1830s.

In the 1830s geology was more than new: it was fashionable.

Most of our assumptions about the way women have always thought about "beauty" date from no earlier than the 1830s, when the cult of domesticity was first consolidated and the beauty index invented.

In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals.

Until the 1800s, most people from the Middle East to the Western World believed what the Bible records about creation and the global Flood. The secular idea of millions of years did not gain extensive popularity until the 1830s, under the influence of a man named Charles Lyell — who opposed a global Flood!

Old Sturbridge Village, a living museum that re-creates life in New England through the 1830s

The biggest anachronism, usually, in a historical movie is, again, the author doesn't want to be thought to in any way share the social conventions or whatever of the time, so there's always this auctorial alter ego. So you have a movie set in the 1830s where you'll have a female character who has the attitudes of a twenty-first-century screenwriter. And that to me is a true anachronism.

The Canadian risings of the 1830s obliged the men in London to think much harder about settler self-government.

People often misuse the term 'Regency' to describe art or antiques dating from a vague period between the 1790s and the 1830s, but technically the period only lasted between 1811 and 1820.

In the late 1830s, China stepped up its efforts to stop the trade in opium and this led to the Opium Wars of 1839–42 and 1856–60.