Chapter Review: Timeline of Events

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

1789 Massachusetts institutes free public elementary education for all children
1790 Spinning mill designed and built by Samuel Slater opens
1790–1820 Cotton production in the South increases from 3,000 to 330,000 bales annually
U.S. slave population more than doubles from 700,000 to 1.5 million
1791–1803 Free and enslaved blacks revolt against French rule in Saint Domingue
1792–1809 New capital of Washington City constructed
1793 Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
1801 Federalists pass new Judiciary Act
Jefferson sends U.S. force to challenge Barbary pirates
1803 United States purchases Louisiana Territory from France
Haiti established as the first independent black-led nation in the Americas
Marbury v. Madison
1804–1806 Corps of Discovery explores Louisiana Territory
April 1805 Sacagawea joins Corps of Discovery
1807 Robert Fulton launches first successful steamboat
Embargo Act passed
1810 Population of both New York and Philadelphia exceeds 100,000
1816 Parker Cleaveland publishes Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology
1817 American Colonization Society founded
1819 McCulloch v. Maryland
1820 One-quarter of non-Indian Americans live west of the Appalachian Mountains
Washington Irving publishes Sketchbook
1828 Noah Webster publishes American Dictionary of the English Language