Timeline

Ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.

1782

  • Oliver Evans builds automated flour mill
1790

  • Samuel Slater opens spinning mill in Providence, Rhode Island
1792

  • Congress passes Post Office Act
1793

  • Eli Whitney devises cotton gin
1814

  • Boston Manufacturing Company opens factory in Waltham, Massachusetts
1816–1828

  • Congress levies protective tariffs
1817

  • Erie Canal begun (completed in 1825)
1820–1840

  • Urban population surges in Northeast and Midwest; shoe entrepreneurs adopt division of labor
1820s

  • New England women take textile jobs

  • Rise of Benevolent Empire spurs conservative social reforms
1824

  • Gibbons v. Ogden promotes interstate trade
1830s

  • Emergence of western commercial cities

  • Labor movement gains strength

  • Middle-class culture emerges

  • Growth of temperance movement
1830

  • Charles G. Finney begins Rochester revivals
1840s

  • Irish and German immigration sparks ethnic riots

  • Maturation of machine-tool industry
1842

  • Commonwealth v. Hunt legitimizes trade unions
1850s

  • Expansion of railroads in Northeast and Midwest
1857

  • Overproduction and speculation trigger a business recession

Question

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