Unit 6

By Javieris7

  • Sharker movement founded in Manchester, England

  • Industrial Revolution begins in Britain

  • First Shaker communities established in New York

  • Samuel Slater builds first U.S. textile factory

  • Eli Whitney invents cotton gin

  • Thomas Paine publishers The age of reason

  • University of North Carolina founded

  • Whitney develops interchangeable parts for muskets.

  • Second Great Awakaening begins

  • Robert Fulton's First first syeamboat. Embargo spurs American manufacturing.

  • Cumberland Road construction begins

  • Erie Canal construction begins

  • Jefferson founds University of Virginia

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    Irving publishes The Sketch Book

  • Emma Willard estblished Troy (New York) female seminary

  • Vesey slave conspiracy in Charleston, South Carolina.

  • Mexico opens Texas to American settlers

  • Lack of electoral majority for presidency throws election into house of representatives.

  • House elects John Quincy Adams president.

  • Erie Canal completed

  • New Harmony commune established

  • American Temperance Society founded. Cooper publishes The last of the Mohicans

  • Tariff of 1828 (" Tariff of Abomiations") Jackson elected president. The South Carolina Exposition published

  • First railroad in Untied states

  • Noah Webster publishers dixtionary American Peace Society founded

  • Indian Removal Act. July Revolution in France.

  • Cyrus McCormick invents mechaniacl mower-reaper

  • Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church. Godey's Lady's Book first published.

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    Finney conducts revivals in eastern cities

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    Alexis de Tocqueville tours United States

  • "Bank War"-- Jackson vetoes bill to recharter Bank of the United States Reform Bill in Britain expands electorate. Tariff of 1832. Blac Hawk war. Jackson defeats Clay for presidency.

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    South Carolina nullification crisis

  • Compromise Tariff of 1833. Jackson removes federal deposits Fom Bank of the United states

  • Anti-Catholic riot in Boston

  • Lyceum movement flourishes

  • Bank of the United states expires. Specie Circular issued. Bureau of Indian affairs established. Battle of the alamo. Battle of San Jacinto. Texas wins independence from Mexico. Van Buren eleted president.

  • Cole's The Oxbox debuts

  • Seminole Indians defeated and eventually removed from Florida. Untied States recongnizes Texas republic but refuses annexation. Panic of 1837

  • John Deere develops steel plow

  • Oberlin Collage admits female students. Mary Lyon establishes Mount Holyoke Seminary. Emerson delivers "The American Scholar" address

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    Cherokee Indians removed on "Trail of Ters"

  • Independent treasury established. Harrison deeats Van Buren for presidency

  • President Van Buren established ten hour day for federal employees

  • London antislavery convention refuses to recognize femle delegates.

  • Brook Farm commune established

  • Massachusette declares labor unions legal in commonwealth v. hunt

  • Dorothea Dix petitions Massachusetts legislature on behalf of the insane.

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    Era of clipper ships

  • SamuelMorse invents telegraph. Anti-Catholic riot in Philadelphia

  • Poe publishes " The Raven"

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    Potato famine in Ireland

  • Elias Howe invents sewing machine

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    Mormon migration to Utah

  • First general incorporation laws in New York. Democratic revoluation collapse in Germany

  • Seneca Falls Woman´s Rights Convention held. Oneida Communtiy established. Foster´s ¨Oh! Susanna¨debuts

  • American , or Know-Nothing, party fored.

  • Hawthorne publishes The scarlet letter

  • London World's Fair

  • Melville publisheds Moby Dick. Maine passes first law prohibiting liquor.

  • Cumberlnad Road completed

  • Thoreau publishes Walden

  • Whitman publishes Leave of grass

  • Cyrus Field lays first transatlantic cable

  • Pony Express established

  • First transcontinental telegraph

  • Permanent transatlantic cable established