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1793
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
1797
Eli Whitney invents interchangeable parts for firearms
1800
Second Great Awakening begins
1807
Robert Fulton invents the steamboat
1816
Tariff of 1816
Bank of the United States created
James Monroe elected president
1818
Treaty of 1818 establishes fixed border with Canada
Gen. Andrew Jackson invades Florida
1819
Panic of 1819
Spain cedes Florida to the United States
House passes Tallmadge Amendment
McCulloch v. Maryland and Dartmouth College v. Woodward cases
1820
Missouri Compromise reached
James Monroe reelected president
1821
Supreme Court issues Cohens v. Virginia ruling
Charles G. Finney begins conducting Christian revivals
1822
Demark Vesey leads slave revolt in South Carolina
Republic of Liberia is founded in Africa
1823
The Monroe Doctrine is issued
Lowell Mills opens in Massachusetts
1824
Russo-American Treaty of 1824
Presidential election of 1824 is disputed
1825
House of Representatives chooses John Qunicy Adams for the presidency
The Erie Canal is completed
New Harmony commune is founded in Indiana
1826
American Temperance Society is founded
1828
Congress passes “Tariff of Abominations”
Andrew Jackson is elected president
First U.S. railroad appears
1829
John C. Calhoun publishes “South Carolina Exposition and Protest”
1830s
Transcendentalist movement begins
1830
Congress passes the Indian Removal Act
Joseph Smith establishes Mormon Church
1831
Nat Turner leads slave rebellion in Virginia
William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing The Liberator
1832
Andrew Jackson thwarts attempt to re-charter Bank of the United States
Congress passes Tariff of 1832
Andrew Jackson is reelected
South Carolina Nullification Crisis
Black Hawk War occurs
1833
Congress passes Compromise Tariff of 1833
Congress passes the Force Bill
Garrison and Theodore Weld found American Anti-Slavery Society
1834
The Whig Party forms
Cyrus McCormick invents the mechanical mower-reaper
National Trades Union forms
Female Moral Reform Society forms in New York
1835
Start of the Second Seminole War
Samuel F. B. Morse invents the telegraph
1836
Bank of the United States charter expires
Jackson issues Specie Circular
Martin Van Buren is elected president
Texas declares independence from Mexico
Battle of the Alamo
Congress refuses to annex Texas
House of Representatives passes “Gag Resolution”
1837
Panic of 1837
Cumberland Road (National Road) is completed
Oberlin College opens as a coeducational institution
Mary Lyon establishes Mount Holyoke Seminary
Abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy is killed
1838
U.S. army forcibly removes Cherokee on “Trail of Tears”
John Deere invents the steel plow
1840
Martin Van Buren establishes independent U.S. Treasury
William Henry Harrison is elected president
Liberty Party is formed
1841
John Tyler becomes president upon William Henry Harrison’s death
Brook Farm commune is founded
1842
Webster-Ashburton Treaty ends Aroostook War
Congress passes Tariff of 1842
Massachusetts legalizes labor unions in Commonwealth v. Hunt
1843
Dorothea Dix crusades for prison and insane asylum reform
1844
James K. Polk is elected president
New England Female Labor Reform Association forms
Millerites prepare for end of the world
1845
United States annexes Texas
Congress is presented with Wilmot Proviso
Frederick Douglass publishes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
1846
Congress passes Walker Tariff
Independent Treasury is reestablished
United States and Britain resolve dispute over Oregon
The Mexican War erupts
John Frémont seizes California
Elias Howe invents the sewing machine
Mormons begin migration to Utah
1847
General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
Oneida Community is founded
1848
United States and Mexico sign Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention is held
1849
Peak of California Gold Rush
1850
Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter
1851
Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick
1854
Henry David Thoreau writes Walden
1854
T. S. Arthur publishes Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There
Supreme Court issues Gibbons v. Ogden ruling
1855
Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass
1858
First transatlantic telegraph cable unites Europe and the Americas
