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Steam Engine patented
Thomas Savery, an engineer and inventor, patented a machine that could effectively draw water from flooded mines using steam pressure. -
Spinning Jenny Invented
The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. -
Cotton Gin Invented
Eli Whitney applied for a patent of his cotton gin on October 28, 1793; the patent was granted on March 14, 1794, but was not validated until 1807. -
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Monroe’s Presidency
The time of James Monroe's Presidency -
Missouri Compromise
A bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel. -
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Presidency of John Quincy Adams
The time that John Quincy Adams was president. -
Erie Canal Completed
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System -
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Presidency of Andrew Jackson
The amount of time that Andrew Jackson was president. -
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Nullification Crisis
A United States sectional political crisis that involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. -
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Panic of 1837
A financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. -
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Trail of Tears
The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
Samuel Slater smuggles plans to America
An early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution.
