Urbanization-Daniel Hahn

Oregon Trail

Period: Apr 1, 1811 to Dec 17, 1884

Missouri Compromise

Mar 16, 1820

Sante fe Trail

Period: Mar 14, 1821 to Mar 14, 1880

First African-American NewsPaper

Mar 16, 1821

Harriet Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

Jan 1, 1823

Harriet Stowe rights Uncle Tom's Cabin—a classic that is read even today.

Invention of the Steel Plow

May 16, 1837

(Exact dates are apporximated) Steel Plow was invented by John Deere

Irish Potato Famine

Oct 5, 1840

There was a potato famine in Ireland that prompted everyone to immigrate out.

Telegraph invented

Aug 17, 1844

Samuel Morse invents the telegraph and the morse code for it.

Mormon Trail

Period: Jan 1, 1846 to Jan 1, 1847

Beginning of Women's Rights Movement

Jan 1, 1848

End of the potato famine

Jan 1, 1852

The Potato Famine was over.

Massachusetts enacts the first mandatory attendance law.

Mar 16, 1852

Free Public Schools

Mar 16, 1918

End of Women's Rights Movement

Jan 19, 1920