1800

By angelina.barrow

  • Thomas Jefferson becomes president

  • The Louisiana purchase

    Land the US purchased for a total of 15 million dollars

  • First successful steam boat trip

    Robert Fulton takes a steam boat on Clermont between New York City and Albany for the first successful trip

  • Missouri compromise

    Missouri became a slave state but the rest of the Louisiana purchase did not

  • Telegraph invented

    Samuel Morse invented a faster way to send messages then through the mail

  • Abraham Lincoln becomes president

  • Period: to

    US civil war

    over this time span over 10,000 battles were fought, 620,000 lives were lost and 3 million slaves were finally freed

  • First telephone was invented

    Graham Bell invented a more universal, cheaper, and faster form of communication