Things to Do If You Could Time Travel to the 19th Century

Ah, the 19th Century. Wars, colonialism, industrial revolution, manifest destiny in America, it was a century of change and revolutionization.

The Top Ten

1 Help the Union Army win the battle of Fort Sumter

2 Be a slavery abolitionist in the United States and help end slavery earlier in the South

3 Ride the first ferris wheel at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair

4 Prevent Abraham Lincoln's assassination

Imagine how different things would have been

5 Help with the building of the Transcontinental Railroad

6 Participate in the California Gold Rush

Would be interesting for sure

7 Go to the Great Exhibition in London

8 Join Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the Pacific Ocean

Sounds like it could be fun

9 Prevent the Confederate Army from reaching Gettysburg in 1863

10 Fight in the Napoleonic Wars

The Contenders

11 Figure out Jack the Ripper’s identity

12 Buy the first stuffed animal

13 Buy Nintendo playing cards

14 Meet Thomas Edison

15 Meet Frederick Douglass

16 Hear an old phonograph to be interested

17 Visit the Eiffel Tower at the Exposition Universelle of 1889

18 Drive the first car, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, in 1886

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