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Second Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence and declare independence for America
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The Second Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation and forwarded the new constitution to the states, from which it required unanimous approval.
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George Washington is inaugurated in New York, and is the first official president of the United States
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The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival that renewed a sense of religon in the western frontier and northeastern United States
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Eli Whitney creates a machine to seperate cotton from its seed
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The first steam engine designed and built in the United States, by Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1801
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The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France
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slave trade within the sout was prohibited
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Missouri tipped the balance in the Senate toward slave states
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President Andrew Jackson made Indian removal a primary concern of his administration. The Indian Removal Act (1830) was ratified by Congress and passed into law by the president.
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the American Anti-Slavery Society, was founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison.
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph for long distance communication
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions for equal rights for women
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South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia and Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee remove themselves from the U.S.
