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Chapter Review

Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 11

Question

This chronology lists significant historical events covered in the chapter but not all of them are directly related. To complete this activity, select three to five events and write a creative, paragraph-length story that explains how these events are connected, what happened, and why it matters.

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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.