American History 1800-1876

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    Francis Cabot Lowell

    Starts Boston manufacturing, sells shares for $1000 a piece
    Pioneer in employing women

  • Post Office Act of 1792

    Created post offices across America. There were 8000 by 1830.

  • Eli Whitney Patents Cotton Gin

    Cotton is hard to get seeds out
    Cotton Gin separates cotton and seeds
    Patents cotton gin in 1794, made no money because of all the legal battles
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    President Thomas Jefferson

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Purchased Louisiana territory for 15 million dollars.
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    President James Madison

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    War of 1812

    President Madison pressured congress to war.

  • Second Bank of United States

    Nearly goes bankrupt in 1819.
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    President James Monroe

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    Construction of Erie Canal

    Radically altered northern economy.
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    Trains Invented and Developed

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    President John Quincy Adams

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    President Andrew Jackson

  • Cyrus Hall McCormick Patents Mechanical Reaper

    McCormick recieved no form al education. He eventually built his own factory so he could build his machines to his own satisfaction.
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    President Martin Van Buren

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    Immigration

    Irish: 2 million
    Germans: 1.5 million
    British: 750,000
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    President John Tyler

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    President William Henry Harrison

  • Rainbow, the first clipper ship, built

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    President James K. Polk

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    President Zachary Taylor

  • 43% of American Population is Foreign Born

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    President Millard Fillmore

    Last whig president.
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    President Franklin Pierce

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    President James Buchanan

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    President Abraham Lincoln

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    President Andrew Johnson

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    President Ulysses S. Grant