TIMELINE OF EVENTS

CHAPTER 8 REVIEW

1789 Massachusetts institutes free public elementary education
1790 Samuel Slater’s spinning mill opens
1790–1820 Cotton production in the South increases from 3,000 to 330,000 bales annually
U.S. slave population rises from 700,000 to 1.5 million
1791–1803 Haitian Revolution
1792–1809 New capital of Washington City constructed
1793 Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
1801 Judiciary Act
U.S. forces challenge Barbary pirates
1803 Louisiana Purchase
Marbury v. Madison
1804–1806 Corps of Discovery explores Louisiana Territory and Pacific Northwest
1807 Robert Fulton launches first successful steamboat
Embargo Act
1810 Population of New York and Philadelphia each exceeds 100,000
1817 American Colonization Society founded
1819 McCulloch v. Maryland
1820 Washington Irving publishes Sketchbook
1828 Noah Webster publishes American Dictionary of the English Language