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Potatoes were introduced and used enormously since 1600.
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Russian's set up trading posts in North America.
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The tax on whiskey was angering people.
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The French people had their own Revolution.
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The US were down in debt by $52 million. The states owed another $25 million.
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Hamilton presented a financial plan to Congress. The main goal was to build a strong national government.
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Washington was re-elected as President for the second time.
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The French Revolution became very bloody because there were many executions,
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Alexander Mackenzie became the first white man to cross North America.
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Slater's Mill opened.
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Anthony Wayne was ordered by Washington to march down to Miami to fight.
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Washington decided he wouldn't run again for president because he didn't want to become a king-like leader.
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France was angry that America signed a treaty with Britain.
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The US upgrade in Armory.
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Thomas Jefferson was elected the new president.
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All over America a revival of faith came. Ameicans listened to Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian preachers.
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In 1803 Ohio joined the Union.
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Lewis and Clark begin the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.
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The expedition of Lewis and Clark began with going up the Missouri River.
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Lewis and Clark set out to find the Red RIver.
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The Embargo Act was signed so that U.S ships were not aloud to sail to any foreign ports.
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Thomas Jefferson was re-elected as president.
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Diedrich Knickerbocker wrote a spoof of New York history called, A History of New York.
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The War of 1812 began.
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The British burned the U.S Capital.
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The Treaty of Ghent was a peace treaty between Britain and America.
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Tariffs had risen steadily. Southerners started to hate tariffs.
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General Andrew Jackson was ordered to crush the Seminole Indians.
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The Missouri Compromise passed which was a balance of power in Congress between slave states and free states.
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Agustin de Iturbide took over Mexico.
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The first public high school opened in Boston.
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In 1824, Becknell was the firt peson to carry his goods in a conestoga wagon.
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New York abolished slavery.
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Andrew Jackson won the Election of 1828.
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Andrew Jackson was sworn into office.
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The Whig Party was created.
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Alexis de Tocqueville took a journey to the Ohio River.
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The Indian Removal Act said that all indians east of the Mississippi had to move west of the river.
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The northerners called for limiting the sale of public land.
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Congress voted to renew the charter of the bank.
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In 1833 the National Road had gotten to Columbus, Ohio.
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South Carolina stays in the Union after a compromise tariff.
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The Seminole Indians refused to leave florida.
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Santa Anna and his troops attacked San Antonio.
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The texans raise a flag with a Lone Star.
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At this time about 90% of america's factories were closed down.
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Some Cherokee Indians resisted to move west.
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The Whigs won their first election in 1840. They're candidate was William Henry Harrison.
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President Van Buren put in a place a ten-hour work day for all public employees.
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American scholars began to create writings.
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To reach Oregon, emigrants had to travel along a trail crossing the west.
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Cingress declared war on Mexico.
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Levi Strauss was one of the most famous German Jews to immigrate to America.
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By this time the main immigrant groups were the British, Irish, Germans, and Scandinavians.
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The Know-Nothing Party was created to limit the Irish immigrants power.
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Moby Dick was published by Herman Melville.
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In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book was known as the groundwork of the Civil War.
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In 1854, the slave issue once more entered the halls of congress. The Kansa-Nebraska Act was created. It was to create two new territories that would be where all the immigrants go, and would have slavery.
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A proslavery group attacked the town of Lawrence, burning down homes and stores.
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In 1858, Abreaham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas had a series of debates.
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A group of people had an Anti-slavery attacked the US arsenal at harpers Ferry in Western Virginia.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected as president. The south hated him, so that is what began the civil war.
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South Carolina led the way by seceeding from the Union.
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In Febuary of 1861, the seceding states created the new nation, the Confederate States of America.
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Lincoln announced that he was sending relief expeditions to Fort Sumter.
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President Lincoln called on the states to provide 75,000 militiamen for 90 days.
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The Confederate Congress voted to set up the Capitol in Richmond.
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The North was unprepared for war.
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Union troops began marching to Manassas.
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Johnston surprised the Union forces at the Battle of Shiloh.
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On New Years Day, Abraham Lincoln had a speech, saying the slaves we free.
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Lee's army crossed into the fertile farmlands of southern Pennsylvania and attacked the Union.
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General Grant took Vicksburg on Independence day.
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By 1900, there were more irish in America than in Ireland!
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Sherman took Atlanta, GA in 1864.
