1807 |
- Robert Fulton sets off steamboat craze.
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1816 |
- Second Bank of the United States chartered.
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1817 |
- American Colonization Society founded.
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1819 |
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1825 |
- Erie Canal completed in New York.
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1826 |
- American Temperance Society founded.
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1828 |
- Tariff of Abominations.
- Andrew Jackson elected president.
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1829 |
- David Walker’s Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World.
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad begun.
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1830 |
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1830–1831 |
- Charles Grandison Finney preaches in Rochester, New York.
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1831 |
- William Lloyd Garrison starts Liberator.
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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.
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1833 |
- South Carolina nullifies federal tariffs.
- New York and Philadelphia antislavery societies founded.
- New York Female Moral Reform Society founded.
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1834 |
- Female mill workers strike in Lowell, Massachusetts, and again in 1836.
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1836 |
- Martin Van Buren elected president.
- American Temperance Union founded.
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1837 |
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1838 |
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1839 |
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1840 |
- William Henry Harrison elected president.
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