CHRONOLOGY

1807

  • – Robert Fulton sets off steamboat craze.

1816

  • – Second Bank of the United States is chartered.

1819

  • – Economic panic.

1825

  • – Erie Canal is completed in New York.

1829

  • – Baltimore and Ohio railroad is begun.

1834

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