1830-1839

  • South Carolina threatens to Succeed

  • The Liberator is published

  • Indian Removal Act passed

  • New Orlean's economy has boomed

  • Attempted Electoral College reform

  • Failure of wheat in the West caused economy hardship

  • Texas Revolution

  • Whig Party holds first convention

  • Patenting System is revised

  • Specie Circular passed

  • Sam Houston becomes president of Texas

  • Mexico becomes an independent nation

  • First college for blacks is open

  • Martin Van Buren becomes president of America

  • Panic of 1837 starts

  • Telegraph is patened in England

  • In France the first patent for the camera

  • 144 stocks listed