Unit 6 1824-1840

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  • Industrail Revolution begins in Britain

  • Samuel Slater bulids first U.S textile factory

  • Eli Whitney invents cotton gin

  • Whitney develops interchangeable parts for muskets

  • Robert Fulton's first steamboat

    • Embargo spurs American manufacturing

  • Cumberland Road construction begins

  • Erie Canal construction begins

  • Vesey slave conspiracy in Charleston, South Carolina

  • Mexico opens Texas to American settlers

  • Lack of....

    Lack of electoral majority for presidency throws election into House of Representatives

  • House elects John Quincy Adams president

  • Erie Canal completed

  • Tariff of 1828 ("Tariff of Abominations")

    • Jackson elected president
    • The South Carolina Exposition published

  • First railroad in United States

  • Indian Removal act

    -July Revolution in France

  • Cyrus McCormick invents mechanical mower-reaper

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    Alexis de Tocqueville tours United States

  • Events in 1832

    • "Bank War"=Jackson vetoes bill to recharter Bank of the United States
    • Reform Bill in Britain expands electorate Tariff of 1832
    • Black Hawk War -Jackson defeats Clay for presidency
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    South Carolina nullification crisis

  • Compromise Tariff of 1833

    • Jackson removes federal deposits from Bank of the United States

  • Anti-Catholic riot in Boston

  • events in 1836

    • Bank of the United States expires
    • Specie Circular issued
    • Bureau of Indian Affairs established
    • Battle of the Alamo
    • Battle of San Jacinto
    • Texas wins independence from Mexico
    • Van Buren elected president

  • Panic of 1837

    • Seminole Indians defeated and eventually removed from Florida
    • United States recognizes Texas republic but refuses annexation

  • John Deere develops steel plow

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    Cherokee Indians removed "Trail of Tears"

  • Independent treasury established Harrison defeats Van Buuren for presidency

  • President Van Buren establishes ten-hour day for federal employees

  • Massachuetts declare labor unions legal in Commonwealth v. Hunt

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    Era of clipper ships

  • Samuel Morse invents telegraph

    • Anti-Catholic riot in Philadelphia