CHRONOLOGY

1807

  • Robert Fulton sets off steamboat craze.

    • 1816

  • Second Bank of the United States chartered.

    • 1817

  • American Colonization Society founded.

    • 1819

  • Financial panic disrupts economy.

    • 1825

  • Erie Canal completed in New York.

    • 1826

  • American Temperance Society founded.

    • 1828

  • Tariff of Abominations passes.

  • Andrew Jackson elected president.

    • 1829

  • David Walker publishes An Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World.

  • Baltimore and Ohio railroad construction begins.

    • 1830

  • Indian Removal Act passes.

    • 1830–1831

  • Charles Grandison Finney preaches in Rochester, New York.

    • 1831

  • William Lloyd Garrison starts Liberator.

    • 1832

  • Hundreds of Sauk and Fox Indians massacred.

  • Worcester v. Georgia decided.

  • Jackson vetoes charter renewal of Bank of the United States.

  • New England Anti-Slavery Society founded.

    • 1833

  • South Carolina nullifies federal tariffs.

  • New York and Philadelphia antislavery societies founded.

  • New York Female Moral Reform Society founded.

    • 1834

  • Female mill workers strike in Lowell, Massachusetts, and again in 1836.

    • 1836

  • Martin Van Buren elected president.

  • American Temperance Union founded.

    • 1837

  • Major financial panic disrupts economy.

    • 1838

  • Cherokee Trail of Tears migration kills thousands.

    • 1839

  • Financial panic recurs.

    • 1840

  • William Henry Harrison elected president.