Chapter 12. Timeline

  • Changes in Great Britain led to a greater demand for manufactured goods

  • Richard Awkright invented a large spinning wheel called the telegraph

  • Possible War with France?

  • Eli Whitney tried to address some of the problems

  • Robert Fulton tested his first steamboat design in France

  • The Clermont traveled up Hudson River

  • Gallatin suggested some reasons why there were so few fsctories in the United States

  • The company built a larger mill in Massachuesetts

  • Gibbons v. Ogden reached Supreme Court

  • Peter Cooper built the Tom Thumb

  • Cyrus developed a new harvesting machine

  • Telegraph was perfected!!!!

  • Martin Van Buren granted a 10- hour workday for many federal employees

  • Lowell Female Labor Reform Association was formed

  • Sarah Bagley was elected vice president of the New England Working Men's Association

  • 30,000 miled of railroad linked almost every major city in the eaatern United States