1830s-1840s

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    Black Hawk War

    The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader.
  • Great fire of New York

    Great fire of New York
    was a huge fire that rendered extensive damage to New York City it took two days to put out the fire
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    Battle of the Alamo

    In December 1835 in the early stages of Texas war for independence from Mexico. A group of Texan volunteers led by George Collinsworth and Benjamin Milam overwhelmed the Mexican garrison at the Alamo and captured the fort, seizing control of San Antonio.
  • Samuel Colts Revolving

    Samuel Colts Revolving
    Samuel Colt told a British patent for his revolver in 1835 and an American patent on February 25 1836 for a Revolving gun, and made the first production model on March 5 of that year.
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    Aroostook war

    A military and civilian-involved confrontation (war) in 1838–1839 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the boundary between the British colony of New Brunswick and the US state of Maine.
  • Amistad slave revolt

    Amistad slave revolt
    The Amistad revolt. In January 1839, 53 African natives were kidnapped from eastern Africa and sold into the Spanish slave trade. The slaves on the boat revolted.
  • morse code

    morse code
    Morse code is an alphabet or code in which letters are represented by combinations of long and short signals of light or sound.
  • California gold rush

    California gold rush
    the gold rush brought 300,000 thousand people to California in search of gold. People thought they could strike riches how ever many people died.
  • Combien harvester

    Combien harvester
    The combine was invented in the United States by Hiram Moore in 1834, and early versions were pulled by horse or mule teams, ox. In 1835 Moore built a full-scale version and by 1839, over 50 acres of crops were harvested.With the creation of the full-scale version people where able to harvest more in a shorter time. As time goes on it gets bigger and better.