American Progress. Meadow

Missouri compromise

1819 BCE

Debates in slavery were boiling in congress. People feared a split in union so clay suggested the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri compromise was that Maine became a free state so that Missouri could become a slave state. This way there was an even balance. The balance was the land north of the Louisiana purchase was free states and land west of the Louisiana purchase were slave states. They tried to keep an even balance to keep from war.

Tariffs

1816 BCE

American manufacturers wanted high tariffs to protect their growing industries. So congress passed a tariff law. The tariff law was meant to protect American manufacturers from foreign competition.

Erie Canal

1812 BCE

Thousands of mostly Irish immigrants helped build the Erie Canal. The canal was 363 miles long. They built locks on it which made it like an esclader to raise or lower boats uphill and downhill. After eight years of building the Erie Canal it finially opened. In 1850 it had more then 3,600 miles of canals that linked with different regions.

Building roadways

1803 BCE

The U.S. needed good roads for travel and to ship goods. Compinies built toll roads which made travelers pay a fee to use the road. This helped pay for building the roads. This way roads can now be built.

Industrial growth

1700 BCE

In colonial times people made everything by hand, and in Great Britain people began to build machines to help do some of the things people did by hand. The machines required workers and many people went to work with the machines. The matches started to spread and it spread to the United States in 1800. This showed the progress of technology that changed and keeps changing the United States,

Tariffs

2 BCE

American manufacturers wanted high tariffs to protect their growing industries. So congress passed a tariff law. The tariff law was meant to protect American manufacturers from foreign competition.