Table : CHRONOLOGY
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.