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ben franklin invented bifolcal eyeglasses . it was disigned to be able to see up close and in a far distance.
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George Washinton was elected president and was in office for 9 years.
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Congress commissions the first U.S. census. When completed, it shows that 3,929,214 lived in the nascent democracy in 1790. The most populated state, Virginia, has 691,737. The center of population was 23 miles west of Baltimore, Maryland
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The United States Post Office Department is established, signed into law by President George Washington
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. which revised dying slaves of the south.
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was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who sold their grain in the form of whiskey had to pay a new tax which they strongly resented.
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signifying peace between the United States and Tripoli, is signed at Algiers.
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John Adams was elected and was in office for 4 years
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were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the Quasi-War.
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A law is passed to abolish slavery in the state of New York, effective twenty-eight year later, in 1827
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george washington was pronounced died
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The United States Library of Congress is founded.
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Thomas Jefferson was elected and was in office for 8 years
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has abolishes slavery in 1804
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Robert E. Lee is born. Would become a military officer, both with the U.S. Regular Army prior to the outbreak of Civil War, and afterwards, the American Confederate General
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united states has ended slave trade with africa.
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The Illinois Territory is created
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took place on January 8, 1815 and was the final major battle of the War of 1812.
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The first American railroad charter is granted by the state of New Jersey to John Stephens.
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mississsippi becomes a state .
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was the first major financial crisis in the United States,and occurred during the political calm of the Era of Good Feelings.
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Florida becomes an official territory of the United States.
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In a speech before Congress, James Monroe announces the Monroe Doctrine, stating the policy that European intervention anyplace is the Americas is opposed and that he would establish American neutrality in future European wars
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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, and would become the first railroad in the United States to offer transportation for people and commercial goods.
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Andrew Jackson, now in the Democratic party, is inaugurated as President, replacing John Quincy Adams after his sole term in office.
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The United States Congress approved the Indian Removal Act, which facilitated the relocation of Indian tribes from east of the Mississippi River. Although this act did not order their removal, it paved the way for increased pressure on Indian tribes to accept land-exchange treaties with the U.S. government and helped lead the way to the "Trail of Tears."
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The Black Hawk War begins and would rage from Illinois to Wisconsin through September. It would consequently lead to the removal of Sauk and Fox Indians west, across the Mississippi River.
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The six year campaign known as the "Trail of Tears" begins when Washington Irving, Henry Levitt Ellsworth, and Captain Jesse Bean, at the Arkansas River, begin one of the first steps in the U.S. campaign to remove Indians from their homes on the east coast.
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The battle of San Jacinto is waged with Sam Houston leading the Texas army to victory over Mexican forces. Santa Ana and his troops are taken prisoner the next day along the San Jacinto River.
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William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel. Later that year,American inventor Thaddeus Fairbanks invented the platform scales and Charles Goodyear invented rubber vulcanization.
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Off the coast of Long Island, New York state, 139 people lose their lives when the steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast.
