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The Buttonwood agreement
The beginnings of the New York Stock Exchange is established with the Buttonwood agreement which was an agreement signed by 24 merchants that talkes about who get what and requirements and establishments on economic trade and currency. -
The new executive mansion
The cornerstone for the U.S. Executive Mansion (called the White House since 1818) in the new District of Columbia is laid by freemasons and the commissioners of the district during the construction of the home of the president. It would take eight more years before President John Adams would move into the home. -
The cotton gin
In 1794, Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin which could do the work of fifty men when cleaning cotton by hand. Because of this, farmers reqired more African slaves to grow and plow in a much more bigger cotton field within the 1800's. This benefitial invention impacted the agriculture within their time. -
The 17th State
Ohio was appart of the "Northwest territory" occupying the south eastern territory being admitted to the U.S. by Congress. -
The Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson proposed a land deal with Pierre Samuel du Pont for 827,000 sq. miles of additional land westward of the Mississippi River that costed nearly 15 million dollars for the renovation after the revolutionary war. -
New Jersey Abolish slavery
In 1804, the New Jersey state legislators passed a law that abolished slavery, and child labor for good. -
The Embargo act
The Embargo act was a general embargo that made all exports from the U.S illegal. This act was enforced by the congress because Thomas Jefferson wanted Britain and France to stop torturing Americans, and to respect their rights during the Napoleonic Wars. -
The MissouriCompromise
The Congress tried to defuse the sectional, and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for an admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Tariff of Abominations
"The Tariff of 1828" was a protective teriff passed by the congress of the United States, designed to protect the industry by giving taxes on items bought inside America. -
U.S. and British settlers transition to the government
In 1843, the U.S. and Britain settlers wanted to join Organ's governmental committee to trade funds and money. -
The Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in attempt to seek a compromise to advert a crisses between the North and the South. The Fugitive Slave Act was amended, and the slave trade in Washington DC was abolished. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that publizize the horrers of slavery, and abuse within the lives of African Americans during the 1800's. The book was so controversal, it increased the tension between southern slaveholder, and the northern non-slaveholders in which it would've been a spark to the Civil War. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
This act was passed by the Congress in 1854 allowing people in the territories of Kansas and Nabraska to decide wheather or not to allow slavery within their boarders. The Act served to repeal to the Missouri Compromise of 1820. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Boarder Ruffain" elements between 1854 and 1861. -
The Dred Scott case
The Dred Scott case was of a land mark decision by the U.S. Surpreme Court and they upheld the notation that "African Americans ( slaved or free) wouldn't be counted as citizens. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown led a small rebillion over the towns of Virginia, and moved south along the Appilachian mountains to seize the federal complex without resistance. -
The Election of 1860
This 19th quadrennial presidential election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the civil war because the slaveholders of the north wanted to make money, and the anti-slaveholders in the south wanted to abolish slavery because was unconstitutional.
