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Steam engine patented
While the Spaniard first patented a steam-operated machine for use in mining, an Englishman is usually credited with inventing the first steam engine. In 1698, Thomas Slavery, 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. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. -
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 -
Missouri compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. ... In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
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Presidency of John Quincy Adams
the time john Quincy Adams was president -
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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. Originally, it ran 363 miles from Albany, on the Hudson River, to Buffalo, at Lake Erie -
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Nullification Crisis
A United States sectional political crisis involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government -
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Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a United States sectional political crisis in 1832–1837, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. -
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trail of tears
The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its land east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present day Oklahoma -
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trail of tears
The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its land 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