1800-1876

By AmericanDodge

  • Ohio becomes the 17th State of the US

  • slave importation is banned but ignored by southern states

  • Slave uprising in New Orleans ultimately fails and costs many lives

  • The US becomes the biggest cotton producer in the world

  • New York passes law emancipating slaves

  • Baltimore opens the US's first railroad station

  • "The Liberator" by William Lloyd Garrison begins its publishment

  • US recognizes Texas as independent while Mexico does not

  • A gold rush begins in central California

  • Emancipation proclamation by Abraham Lincoln becomes law

  • Alexander Grambell invents telephone

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