America in the 1800s By guilleferreyraa 1800 Tomas Jefferson is elected as president 1801 Ohio becomes the seventeenth state. 1816 First continental map of the United States. 1834 First book printed in new Mexico. 1848 The failure of democratic revolutions in Europe triggers an increase in immigration to the United States 1855 Walt Whitman publishes "Leaves of Grass" 1859 Birth of the oil industry. 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected to serve as president. 1861 Bull Run, the first great battle of the American Civil War. 1862 Lincoln issues the proclamation of emancipation. 1865 The thirteenth amendment, which ends slavery is passed. 1869 Completion of the transcontinental railway. 1872 The first national park, Yellowstone, is established. 1876 Alexander graham bell invents the telephone. 1881 Clara Barton creates the American Red Cross. 1882 Chinese exclusion law. This law establishes an absolute ten-year moratorium on Chinese labour immigration. 1898 Spanish-American War; The United States conquers Puerto Rico and Guam, they occupy Cuba and the Philippines.
