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Waltham cotton mill
Boston Manufacturing Company founds cotton mill at Waltham Massachusetts -
end of war of 1812
war of 1812 ends with the signging of the Treaty of Ghent -
election of 1816
James Monroe is elected president with 183 vote agaisnt King with 34 votes -
invasion of florida
Andrew Jackson invades Florida. Jackson captured two British citizens in Spanish Florida, Robert Ambrister and Alexander Arbuthnot. The former was an ex-Marine turned mercenary who was apparently working with area blacks and American Indians to undermine the Spanish. The latter was a private businessman and trader who, from a combination of humane concern and his own economic self-interest, sought peace between the Seminoles and the United States -
McCulloch v Maryland
This case arose because the state of Maryland had levied a tax on the Baltimore branch of the Bank of the United States. -
Adams-Onis treaty
This treaty ceded Florida to the United States -
Panic of 1819
This was the first major financial crisis in the United States, which occurred during the end of the Era of Good Feelings -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise developed the new system of admitting slave and free states. it admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and ruled that any states below the 30 36 would be slave and any above would be free -
election of 1820
Monroe is elected for a second term beating John Quincy Adams 231 to 1 -
monroe doctrine
An American foreign policy opposing interference in the western hemisphere from outside powers -
Gibbons v Odgen
This decision blostered the power o congress to regulate interstate commerce. -
election of 1824
John Quincy Adams is elected as president -
Erie Canal
Canal completed, begining of canal era