1807 Robert Fulton sets off steamboat craze.
1816 Second Bank of the United States chartered.
1817 American Colonization Society founded.
1819 Economic panic.
1825 Erie Canal completed in New York.
1826 American Temperance Society founded.
1828 Tariff of Abominations.
Andrew Jackson elected president.
1829 David Walker's Appeal … to the Coloured Citizens of the World.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad begun.
1830 Indian Removal Act.
1830–1831 Charles Grandison Finney preaches in Rochester, New York.
1831 William Lloyd Garrison starts Liberator.
1832 Massacre of Sauk and Fox Indians.
Worcester v. Georgia.
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 Economic panic.
1838 Cherokee Trail of Tears.
1839 Economic panic.
1840 William Henry Harrison elected president.