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US History Chapters 9-13
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Slave Revolt in San Domingo
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Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin
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Philadelphia-Lancaster Turnpike is completed
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Wilderness Road Opens
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Gabriel Conspiracy in Richmond, VA
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The Clermont, sails to Albany
The Clermont was the first successful steamboat -
Participation in the international slave trade is outlawed
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Supreme Court issues Fletcher v. Peck decision
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Charles Deslondes revolt in Louisiana
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Construction of the national road begins
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1816
Second Bank of the US is established and First protective tariff goes into effect -
American Colonization Society is Founded
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1819
-Supreme Court issues McCulloch v. Maryland decision
-US and Spain agree to the Transcontinental Treaty
-Tallmadge Amendment -
1821
-Florida becomes a territory
-Missouri becomes a state -
Denmark Vasey conspiracy is discovered in Charleston, SC
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President Monroe enunciates the principles of the Monroe Doctrine
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1824
-Supreme court issues Gibbons v. Ogden decision
-John Quincy Adams wins the presidential election -
Erie Canal opens
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Ministers organize the American Society for the promotion of temperance
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1828
-John C. Calhoun published the 'South Carolina Exposition and Protest'
-Andrew Jackson wins the presidential election
-Tariff of Abominations goes into effect -
1830
-Congress passes the Indian Removal Act
-Andrew Jackson vetoes the Maysville Road Bill
- Charles G. Finny begins preaching in Upstate New York(1830-1831)
- Joseph Smith reveals the Book of Mormon -
1831
-Supreme Court issues Cherokee Nation v. Georgia decision
-Cyrus McCormick invents a mechanical reaper
-Nat Turner leads slave insurrection in Virginia
- William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of 'the Liberator' -
1832
-Supreme Court issues Worcester v. Georgia decision.
-South Carolina issues ordinance of nullification
-Andrew Jackson vetoes the Bank Recharter Bill -
1833
-Congress passes Henry Clay's compromise tariff.
-American anti-slavery Society is founded -
National Trades' Union is Organized
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1836
-Martin Van Buren is elected president.
- Transcendental Club holds its first meeting -
1837
-John Deere invents the steel plow
-Financial pandemic follows a drop in the price of cotton
- Abolitionist editor, Elijah P Lovejoy is murdered -
Eastern Indians are forced to relocate west on the Trail of Tears (1837-1838)
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1840
-William Henry Harrison, a Whig, is elected President
- Abolitionists from the Liberty party -
Massachusetts supreme judicial court issues Commonwealth v. Hunt decisions
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1845
-Rainbow, the first clipper ship, is launched
- 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,' is published -
1846
-Elias Howe invents the sewing machine
-Mormons led by Brigham Young undertake Trek to Utah -
1848
-California gold rush begins
-At the Seneca Falls Convention, woman issue the Declaration of sentiments
- John Humphrey Noyes established the Oneida Community -
Sojourner Truth delivers her famous speech 'ain't I a woman?'
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom;s Cabin, is published
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Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden', or 'Life in the Woods' is published
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Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass,' is published