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War of the Spanish Succession
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New York Assembly enacts a law which prohibits african americans from testifying aginst whites in the court of law
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Massacre of English Colonists
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New York city revolt
The New York City slave revolt begins on April 6. Nine whites are killed and an unknown number of blacks die in the uprising. Colonial authorities execute 21 slaves and six commit suicide. -
First slaves in lousiana
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Code Noir
The French colonial government in Louisiana enacts the Code Noir, the first body of laws that govern both slaves and free blacks in North America. -
Isaac Newtons Principals translated into English
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Lucy Terry
Lucy Terry, a slave, composes Bars Fight, the first known poem by an African American. A description of an Indian raid on Terry's hometown in Massachusetts, the poem will be passed down orally and published in 1855 -
Samuel Johnsons dictonary First published
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James Watt Invents the steam engine
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Cencus 1800
Census of 1800, U.S. Population: 5,308,483, Black Population: 1,002,037 (18.9%) including 108,435 free African Americans. -
New Capital
- June. The U. S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
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Ohio outlaws slavery
Ohio outlaws slavery -- September. James Callender makes the accusation that Thomas Jefferson has "for many years past kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves," Sally Hemings. It is published in the Richmond Recorder that month, and the story is soon picked up by Federalist presses around the country. Callender, a Republican, has previously been an avid investigator of Federalist scandals. In 1798, Jefferson had helped pay for the publication of Callender's pamphlet The Prospect Before Us -
Commi
April 19. Jefferson nominates James Monroe and William Pinckney as joint commissioners to Great Britain. British warships have been boarding and searching American ships and seizing American as well as British seamen, claiming that they are British deserters. Jefferson hopes to resolve the issue and maintain American neutrality in the conflict between Great Britain and France. -
America takes control of the Gulf Coast
By 1810 France had repealed its commercial restrictions, at least nominally, and in the same year Madison seized the province of West Florida from Spain, thereby consolidating American control of the Gulf Coast. But with respect to Great Britain, his efforts were unavailing, and beginning in November 1811, he urged Congress to mobilize the -
Mississouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Maine immediately gives right to vote and education to all male citizens. The compromise also prohibited slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30'N lat. (southern boundary of Missouri). The 36°30' proviso held until 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise. -
Canal Complete
Erie Canal completed – major transportation achievement which made New York and New York City ascend commercially. -
No slavery in new york
Slavery illegal in New York -
Changes being made
These documents focus on New England in the 1830s and 40s and tell the story of how the campaigns for abolitionism and woman’s rights emerged together and affected each other. They also show how these movements were intertwined with New Englanders’ everyday lives. They provide a way to develop a historical perspective on two issues that Americans continue to debate and struggle with—racial justice and the equality of the sexes. -
First Morse Code
1844 - Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore -
War with Mexico
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Karl Marx
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 - Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto
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Lincolon is President
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Lincoln inagurated
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Impeached
President Johnson impeached, acquitted. -
Expanding
Between 1820 and 1860, the visual map of the United States was transformed by unprecedented urbanization and rapid territorial expansion. These changes mutually fueled the Second Industrial Revolution which peaked between 1870 and 1914. Between the annexation of Texas (1845), the British retreat from Oregon country, and The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848) which cemented Mexican cession of the Southwest to the United States, territorial expansion exponentially rewrote the competing visions fre
