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A religious revival amongst black and white Southerners.
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Eli Whitney, Yale graduate, and Catherine Greene, widow of Revolutionary War Officer Nathaniel Greene, produced a machine called the Cotton Gin which made it possible to clean up to fifty pounds of cotton per day.
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Tennessee becomes a state.
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March 4th, 1797-March 4th, 1801.
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A failed rebellion organized by Gabriel Prosser, a slave preacher and blacksmith, that planned an attack on Richmond, Virginia.
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The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist. He experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. This is called an electric arc.
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March 4th, 1801-March 4th, 1809
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Ohio becomes a state.
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The state of Virginia tightens their laws on the manumission of slaves.
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Congress decides to prohibit U.S. participation in the international slave trade.
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March 4th, 1809-March 4th, 1817
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The War of 1812 against Britain began for several reasons. One of the key reasons was Britain's resctrictions on US trading and shipping. The war ended on February 18th, 1815 with the Treaty of Ghent-signed on December 24th, 1814, it was the treaty that ended the War of 1812-most of which the US dictated,
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Alabama Fever, a surge of expansion into the South, broke out.
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Indiana becomes a state.
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March 4th, 1817-March 4th, 1825
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Mississippi becomes a state.
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Illinois becomes a state.
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Alabama becomes a state.
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Maine becomes a state.
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Missouri became a slave state under the condition that Maine enter the Union as a free state.
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Missouri becomes a state.
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A carefully carried out plan in which slave rebels planned to take control of Charleston and escape to freedom in Haiti, however they were betrayed by other slaves. Seventy-five of the conspirators were executed.
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March 4th, 1825-March 4th, 1829
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March 4th, 1829-March 4th, 1837
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720,000 bales produced.
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A slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia led by Nat Turner which resulted in the death of fifty-five white people.
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Second wave of westward expansion.
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A major event in the process of Texas's Revolution. Ending with a Mexican victory on March 6th that same year, there were a little over 1400 wounded or killed in total during this bloody battle.
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Arkansas becomes a state.
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The "Gag Rule" is passed by Congress to prevent discussion of any antislavery petitions.
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Michigan becomes a state.
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March 4th, 1837-March 4th, 1841
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The forced removal of the five civilized tribes-Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole-into 'Indian Territory'.
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March 4th, 1841-April 4th, 1841
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April 4th, 1841-March 4th, 1845
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Florida becomes a state.
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March 4th, 1845-March 4th, 1849
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Tension between the Americans and the Spanish brewed and finally boiled over with the US annexation of Texas, thus producing the Mexican/American War. It was a US victory.
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Texas becomes a state.
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Iowa becomes a state.
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A period of time in American history when a considerable amount of gold was found in a California river by a man named James Marshall. Despite the Forty-Niners, a reference to the prospectors who flooded California in 1849 after the discovery, many hardships, most did not strike it rich. The California Gold Rush ended in 1855.
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Peace treaty, mostly dictated by the US, between Mexico and the US that ended the Mexican/American War.
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Wisconsin becomes a state.
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March 4th, 1849-July 9th, 1850
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The Compromise of 1850 was a last ditch effort to keep the country united, but about all it did was stall the inevitable.
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July 9th, 1850-March 4th, 1853
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California becomes a state.
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Cotton production has increased to 2.85 million bales.
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March 4th, 1853-March 4th, 1857
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and repealed the Missouri Compromise.
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Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war between Northerners and Southerners on whether or not Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. It ended in 1860 with Kansas, he abolitionists, being vicorious.
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In March of 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that blacks, all blacks, could never be citizens of the US; and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional-therefore opening slavery to all of he countries territories. The Dred Scott VS. Sanford case invovled a black man, Dred Scott, who wanted to be a free US citizen, and appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of his wishes being granted. Although Scott lost his case, it did help bring slavery into the lime light a bit more.
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Minnesota becomes a state.
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S series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen Douglas in which slavery was the main topic.
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Oregon becomes a state.
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John Brown's Raid was an attempt by abolitionist John Brown to start a slave revolt by seizing a US Arsenal at Harper's Ferry in Virginia. The raid was unsuccessful, however, and ended two days later.
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Cotton production increases to 5 million bales.
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The Civil War begins.
