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Missouri Compromise
When Missouri was added to the Union, a major debate between the North and the South over making it a slave or a free state. The Compromise allowed Missouri to be a slave state, while making Maine, another new state, a free state. It also stated that any new state below the 36 (degree) 30 (degree) line allows slavery, while any above bans it. It is important because it made temporary peace between Southern slave owners and Norther abolitionists. -
Lowell Mills
Many factories started apearing in the North, most hiring mainly young girls. The girls were paid little and had harsh working conditions. -
Erie Canal Completed
The Erie Canal made tranportation from the Atlantic coast to the Great Lakes and farther much easier and more efficient. It also made New York City more of a port city, enhancing its importance. -
Indian Removal Act
Many Southerners wanted the land that the Native Americans owned, so the Indian Removal Act was passed to take the lands and move the Natives to another place specified for them. Many of the tribes didn't get along, though. -
The Liberator was first published
William Lloyd Garrison, a white aboltitionist, began writing a newspaper in the North against slavery. Many Southerners were against the Liberator. It further seperated the North and the South. -
Nat Turner Revolt
Nat Turner was a well educated slave who led a revolt with only a few slaves at first, killing the master and many overseers. Eventually, over 70 enslaved and free blacks joined him, killing 55 white people. This was one of the major slave revolts. -
Bank Wars
Andrew Jackson viewed the Federal Bank as a monopoly and being "unconstitutional." Therefore, he vetoed the renewal of the bank's charter. -
Nullification Crisis
A tariff was placed on many items, though South Carolina was against it. They nullified that act and threatened to secede. Jackson threatened to use force to keep South Carolina in the Union. -
New York Female Moral Reform Society
Prostitution was a large issue in the 1830's, mainly because women earned the most money being prostitutes. The NYFMRS met to discuss prostitution and other moral issues, to try and find an alternative for the women. -
First Lowell Mill Strike
Many factory owners reduced the already low wages paid to the female workers, so many revolted and started a strike. Unfortunately, it failed, due to the many other willing possible employees who would work for less. -
Panic of 1837
When Andrew Jackson refused to renew the charter of the Second National Bank, the Federal Bank started to fail because of lack of government support. Banks weren't able to give out money due to unregulated distribution, and many people were unemployed. -
Manifest Destiny
John L. O'Sullivan first invented the idea of Manifest Destiny, which was the belief that it was the American's duty from God to own the land from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic. This didn't help the Native Americans much, because the more people wanting to move west, the less land the Natives are allowed to have. -
Texas Annexed as a Slave State
Texas was a very short lived independant country from Mexico beginning in 1836. The President of Texas decided, after 10 years, the annexation to the Union was best, so in 1846, Texas became a state. Due to the Missouri Compromise, it became a slave state. -
Women's Rights Convention
This was the first convention the women officially held to discuss women's rights. Those attended included Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Frederick Douglass. This eventually led to the Nineteenth Amdendment, allowing women to vote. -
California Gold Rush
At Sutter's Mill, James Marshall found gold in a river. Very quickly, people migrated to California to search for more gold, believing that there must have been tons of it there. They were wrong, however, and most people didn't find anything. This helped expand America by spreading the population from coast to coast.
