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Thomas Savery, an engineer and inventor, patented a machine that could effectively draw water from flooded mines using steam pressure.
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The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution.
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Eli Whitney applied for a patent of his cotton gin on October 28, 1793; the patent was granted on March 14, 1794, but was not validated until 1807.
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The time of James Monroe's Presidency
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A bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel.
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The time that John Quincy Adams was president.
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The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System
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The amount of time that Andrew Jackson was president.
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A United States sectional political crisis that involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government.
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A financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s.
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The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.
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An early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution.