United States 1828

Synopsis

The Workingmen's Party was formed in Philadelphia in 1828. The organization's primary goal was to gain equality for the working man of America through political means. Branches soon began in New York and Boston. The major platform of the party was education for all and an end to the divisions between the rich and the poor. The party was not successful and disintegrated by 1832. The Workingmen's Party laid the groundwork for future political labor-based organizations.

George Henry Evans. The Library of Congress.

Timeline

• 1803: German pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Saturner isolates an opium derivative, to which he gives the name morphine.
• 1808: First performances of Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth symphonies.
• 1813: Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice.
• 1818: British surgeon James Blundel performs the first successful blood transfusion.
• 1823: U.S. President James Monroe establishes the Monroe Doctrine, whereby the United States warns European nations...