Uranus conjuncted the USA natal Part of Transformation on June 1, 1845 and on that day:
"June 1, 1845
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree, but went by the name she believed God had given her as a symbolic representation of her mission in life) set out from New York City on a journey across America, preaching about the evils of slavery and promoting women's rights. She had been a slave with several owners but was legally free when slavery was abolished in New York state."*
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http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjune.htm
Quite interestingly the Part of Fortune for the event chart is on the 7th degree of Cap. right where Pluto was last month on that event when there was a Pentagram in the sky except for the 19th degree of Pisces that involved the Moon, Venus, Lilith and Pluto/...as Lilith in the event chart has just passed over the USA natal Venus [02* Cancer 13' 43"] and the North Node is conjunct the USA natal Part of Fortune in the 26th of Scorpio.
There were a number of notable events in the months that followed.
Just prior on March 3... Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
and in May ... Frederick Douglass's Narrative of "The Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" written by himself is published by the Boston Anti-Slavery Society.
Thoreau began his 2 year experiment of alternative lifestyle at Walden Pond, on July 4th.
July–August...In the United States Magazine and Democratic Review editor John L. O'Sullivan declares that foreign powers are trying to prevent American annexation of Texas in order to impede "the fulfillment of
our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions"
.[ It is the first use of the phrase "Manifest Destiny".
On October 10... In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School [later renamed the United States Naval Academy] opens with 50 midshipmen students and 7 professors.
October 13...A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the United States Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
October 21...The New York Herald becomes the first newspaper to mention the game of baseball.
October 22...The New York Morning News becomes the first newspaper to include a box-score of a baseball game.
December 2 –
Manifest Destiny: U.S. President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced
and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
December 29...Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
...As i noted, the North Node was conjunct the USA natal Part of Fortune at the event moment and that is th 26th of Scorpio. [From Dane Rudhyar's book on the Sabian Symbols "An Astrological Mandala"]
SCORPIO 26° "
AMERICAN INDIANS MAKING CAMP AFTER MOVING INTO A NEW TERRITORY.
KEYNOTE: The ability to adjust swiftly to a new situation by tuning in to its requirements.
He who lives in harmony with nature, moving on as new needs arise, finds himself intuitively at home everywhere. He does not make demands upon life, for he has identified himself with the great rhythms of the biosphere and he functions at peace with what they produce. This is the message of the American Indian culture which European invaders so wantonly and meaninglessly destroyed nearly everywhere. Western man has lost faith in life because he wants to dominate and enslave manifestations.
This represents the first stage of the forty-eighth five-fold sequence in the cycle of experience. It brings to us a message we greatly need today — the message of peaceful adaptation to nature, and through adaptation, of
EFFICIENT FUNCTIONING in all life situations."
...Yeah, that "Manifest Destiny" phrase kind of called it ..all in all, a rather significant year.
[And one of my fav. little astro-delinquents, Parsival. is conj. the USA Part of Hyleg...which I find amusiong as that 7th degree of Capricorn is where my Part of Hyleg is.]