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First Cotton Mill.
The worlds first integrated cotton mill opened in Waltham, Massachusetts. -
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1814-1850
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The Bank War
The Second Back of the United States was granted a twenty-year charter from Congress. The Bank’s most important job was to keep the states banks in line by forcing them to maintain adequate reserves and restricting speculative activates. The Bank acted as a stabilizwe for the control of the money supply. -
The Election of 1824.
It marked the end of the “Era of Good Feelings” Jackson won the popular vote, but failed to win a majority in the electoral college. It came to a tie in which the House of Representatives broke in favor of Adams. -
The Election of 1828
Andrew Jackson was elcted president with the help of Van Buren. His party, the Democratic Republican spoke the language of the common man. He supported the North, South and West, making him national. -
Slave Revolt
Nat Turner, August 20, 1831, him and another five slaves moved from plantation to plantation killing white people. 55 whites died and by the morning the group grew to over 60. -
The Banks recharter.
The director of the Second Back of the Unite States, Nicholas Biddle, filed for an early renewal of the Bank’s charter. Congress approved it, but President Andres Jackson vetoed it and ruled them unconstitutional. -
Jacksons Reelection.
Jackson vetoing the Bank’s renewal of charter made him very popular and successful in reelection. -
Banking and recession.
Nicholos Biddle called in all of the bank’s commercial loans, which caused a panic and recession. The
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Election of 1836
Jackson’s Vice President, Martin Van Buren, won the presidential election of 1836. -
The Alamo and Texas statehood. (Continued.)
The Mexican Congress didn’t agree with this action. The U.S Congress refused to grant the Republic of Texas statehood when it wanted to join the Union in 1837. John Quincy Asams protested Texas joining the Union as its 14th slave state. When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844 and promised o annex Texas. As his last action of president, he pushed for the annexation of Texas. Texas became part of the Union in December of 1845. -
The Alamo and Texas statehood.
The entire siege lasted 13 days. February 23 -March 6,1836. General Santa Anna arrived with a large force of soldiers and entered San Antonio. The defenders retreated to the Alamo. Santa Anna's force surrounded the small mission and repeatedly attacked, but was repelled each time by the Texans, but on the 3rd attack Santa Anna's soldiers broke through into the Alamo. On May 14, 1836, San Anna signed a treaty declaring the independence of the Republic of Texas. -
The Panic of 1837
It was caused by Banks eager to give loans out, and them giving out to much. Jackson issued the Specie Circular, which required payment for federal lands only in hard currency, which caused the Panic of 1837. The recession lasted for 6 years. -
The Campaign of 1840
William Henry Harrison was nominated as the Whigs presidential candidate and nominated John Tyler as the Vice President, who was from the south. They Whig party blamed Van Buren for the continuing depression and Harrison won the election. -
The Telegraph
The telegraph was invented by Samuel F. Mores. Now news and communications would only take a matter of minutes or hours, rather than days or weeks. -
The Gold Rush.
James Marshall discovered gold flakes at Sutter’s Mill. This discovery began to what is known as the “Gold Rush.” This also brought “The 49ers” that were people that migrated to California in searcher of gold -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexico ceded its province of California and New Mexico in February 2, 1848 and accepted the Rio Grande
as the boundary of Texas. The United States pay $15 million for Mexico to return the land. The treaty was accepted.
