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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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Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" (a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson) and the "Father of the American Factory System." In the UK, he was called "Slater the Traitor"[2] because he brought British textile technology to America, modifying it for United States use.
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A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
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James Monroe was an American statesman who served as the fifth President of the United States from 1817 to 1825.
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The Missouri Compromise is the title generally attached to the legislation passed by the 16th United States Congress on May 8, 1820
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The steam engine facilitated major advancements in the fields of mining, manufacturing, agriculture and transportation.
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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. Originally, it ran 363 miles from Albany, on the Hudson River, to Buffalo, at Lake Erie.
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The Missouri Compromise is the title generally attached to the legislation passed by the 16th United States Congress on May 8, 1820
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Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.
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The Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory.
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The Nullification Crisis was a United States sectional political crisis in 1832-33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government.
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The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. Pessimism abounded during the time.