Kayla's U.S. History Timeline

By cokes1
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    Events 1810-1840

  • War of 1812

  • Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery.

  • Thomas Gallaudet founds a school for people with hearing impairments.

  • Denmark Vesey planned a rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina but his plan was found out and he was stopped

  • The U.S. and Great Britain signed an agreement to continue joint occupation of Oregon Country.

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator

  • Nat Turner was executed

  • John Pendleton Kennedy wrote a novel about plantation life called Swallow Barn

  • Samuel Clemens also known as Mark Twain was born in Missouri

  • John Deere invented the steel bladed plow

  • Horace Mann becomes the first secretary of education in Massachusetts.

  • Tennessee produced about 45 million bushels of corn

  • William Henry Harrison is elected president