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In 1750, steam was used as a major way to take the place of human labor. With it came the Industrial Revolution in England.
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The first state-supported universities showed up in the South in 1795.
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The Second Great Awakening
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 prompted a boom of American factories and the use of American products as opposed to British imports. -
Election of 1824
Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William Crawford, and Henry Clay.
No candidate won the majority of the electoral votes -
the American Peace Society was formed
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many Germans came to America because of crop failures and other hardships.Unlike the Irish, the Germans possessed a modest amount of material goods. The Germans were more educated than the Americans and were opposed to slavery.
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The Bank War
Daniel Webster and Henry Clay presented Congress with a bill to renew the Bank's charter. Clay pushed to renew the charter in 1832 to make it an issue for the election of that year. He felt that if Jackson signed off on it, then Jackson would alienate the people of the West who hated the Bank. If Jackson vetoed it, then he would alienate the wealthy class of the East who supported the Bank. Clay did not account for the fact that the wealthy class was now a minority. Jackson vetoed the bill -
Election of 1840
William Henry Harrison defeated Van Buren -
Sewing machine was invented.
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By 1860, there were 33 states and the U.S. was the 4th most populous country in the western world.